features

fast and intuitive key only control
context based help (no need to remember any hot-key)
inspect/commit changes (incl. hooks: commit-msg/post-commit)
(un)stage files, revert/reset files
scalable ui layout
async input polling and
async git API for fluid control

motivation

I do most of my git usage in a terminal but I frequently found myself using git UIs for some use cases like: index/commit, diff, stash and log.

Over the last 2 years my go-to GUI tool for this was fork because it was not bloated, snappy and free. Unfortunately the free part will change soon and so I decided to build a fast & simple terminal tool myself to copy the fork features i am using the most.

installation

For the time being this product is considered alpha and not production ready, therefore I do not distribute binary versions yet, however feel free to build gitui and let me know what you think!

requirements

install rust/cargo: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

cargo install

the simplest way to start playing around with gitui is to have cargo build/install it:

cargo install gitui

diagnostics:

to enable logging to ~/.gitui/gitui.log:

GITUI_LOGGING=true gitui

todo for 0.2 (first release)

visualize commit-msg hook result
publish as homebrew-tap

inspiration

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
https://github.com/jonas/tig
https://github.com/git-up/GitUp (would be nice to comeup with a way to have the map view available in a terminal tool)

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