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Introduction
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`git cola` is a simple, powerful, and feature-rich GUI for `git`
that provides an easy way to interact with Git repositories.

Git Cola?
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Out of cola?  Don't panic.

Download
    Visit the
    `git cola home page <http://git-cola.github.io/>`_

Discuss
    `git cola mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/git-cola>`_.

Improve
    Submit issues and enhancement requests to the
    `git cola issue tracker <http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues>`_.

Contribute
    `git cola on github <http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/>`_

    .. sourcecode:: sh

        git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git


Installation
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The `git cola` installation instructions are included in
the source tarball.

See the ``README.md`` file for more details, or
`read it on github <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola>`_.


Running `git cola`
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If you've already installed cola::

    git cola


If you have the `git cola` source::

    make && bin/git-cola

