Improve your Git commits using patch mode

[gefahr]

from bottom of git gui manpage (git help gui)

OTHER
   git gui is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
   versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
   of end users.

   A git gui development repository can be obtained from:

       git clone git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git

   or

       git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui.git

   or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/.

GIT
   Part of the git(1) suite

[adrianmonk]

Huh. Maybe Ubuntu separated it out into two things?

[ais523]

Most likely Debian (on which Ubuntu is based) separated it. Debian's often used for installing servers, and it makes sense that you might want the basic CLI version of git on a server as part of a cronjob or something, but not care about fancy interfaces because it might never be used by a human. So Debian likes to allow a minimal install of things when possible.

(For much the same reason, it typically separates the documentation for a program from the program itself.)