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Introduction
============

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

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

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

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

See the ``INSTALL`` file for more details.

You can also read the
`installation guide <http://cola.tuxfamily.org/install.html>`_ online.


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

    git cola


If you have the git-cola source::

    make && bin/git-cola


Special Thanks
==============
`git-cola` was made possible due to the contributions of the following people:

* Audrius Karabanovas
* Barry Roberts
* Boris W
* Ben Boeckel
* Christian Jann
* Daniel King
* David Aguilar
* David Martínez Martí
* `GIT Hackers <http://git-scm.com/about>`_
* Ismael Juma
* Iulian Udrea
* Justin Lecher
* Karl Bielefeldt
* Kelvie Wong
* Kevin Kofler
* Marco Costalba
* Michael Geddes
* Michael Homer
* Markus Heidelberg
* Matthew Levine
* Paolo G. Giarrusso
* Stefan Naewe
* Steffen Prohaska
* Uri Okrent
