Posted on October 22, 2012
by rodney
RabbitVCS is a graphical interface to git (and svn). It includes:
- a nautilus extension (shows icons on your files)
- the meld diff tool (a good diff/merge tool)
- a graphical git log viewer (quite basic but does the job)
- a plugin for gedit
On Debian or Fedora, just install rabbitvcs-nautilus to try it.
The nautilus extension
Only problem happens if you view a directory full of git repos. You will find a python process consuming all available memory as fast as possible (not that fast since it’s python). Also a CPU core will become engaged with nautilus and dbus chatting together.
Apart from that, it looks quite nice. I don’t think I will use it much because I already have Magit for emacs. But sometimes you want to see your files in a file browser (especially in the beautiful new version of nautilus), and for those occassions, RabbitVCS is helpful.