GIT is a set of interactive tools. It contains an extensible
file system browser, an ascii/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer
and some other related utilities and shell scripts. It can be used to
increase the speed and efficiency of most of the daily tasks such as
copying and moving files and directories, invoking editors, compressing
and uncompressing files, creating and expanding archives, compiling
programs, sending mail, etc. It looks nice, has colors (if the standard
ANSI color sequences are supported) and is user-friendly.
GIT runs on a wide variety of UNIX systems because it uses
the GNU Autoconf package to get system specific information.
Please refer to the PLATFORMS file included in the standard distribution
for a detailed list of systems on which GIT has been tested.
One of the main advantages of GIT is its flexibility. It is not
limited to a given set of commands. The configuration file can be
easily enhanced, allowing the user to add new commands or file
operations, depending on its needs or preferences.
GIT also provides a shell like command prompt, just to make sure
that the entire power of the UNIX shell commands is still there.
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