GitAhead is no longer under active development. Low-level maintenance and bug fix releases will be made as necessary for the foreseeable future, but no new features or major changes are planned at this time. Please consider continuing development in a rebranded fork for anything other than trivial changes.
GitAhead is a graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history. It's available as a pre-built binary for Windows, Linux, and macOS, or can be built from source by following the directions below.
- C++11 compiler
- Windows - MSVC >= 2017 recommended
- Linux - GCC >= 6.2 recommended
- macOS - Xcode >= 10.1 recommended
- CMake >= 3.3.1
- Ninja (optional)
External dependencies can be satisfied by system libraries or installed separately. Included dependencies are submodules of this repository. Some submodules are optional or may also be satisfied by system libraries.
External Dependencies
- Qt (required >= 5.9)
Included Dependencies
- libgit2 (required)
- cmark (required)
- git (only needed for the credential helpers)
- libssh2 (needed by
libgit2for SSH support) - openssl (needed by
libssh2andlibgit2on some platforms)
Note that building OpenSSL on Windows requires Perl and NASM.
Initialize Submodules
git submodule init
git submodule update
Build OpenSSL
# Start from root of gitahead repo.
cd dep/openssl/openssl
Win:
perl Configure VC-WIN64A
nmake
Mac:
./Configure darwin64-x86_64-cc no-shared
make
Linux:
./config -fPIC
make
Configure Build
# Start from root of gitahead repo.
mkdir -p build/release
cd build/release
cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../..
If you have Qt installed in a non-standard location, you may have to
specify the path to Qt by passing -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<path-to-qt>
where <path-to-qt> points to the Qt install directory that contains
bin, lib, etc.
Build
ninja
GitAhead is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md for details.
