gitui

blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in rust

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

build from source

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

cargo install --path "."

after that you can go to your git repo and run it:

gitui

todo

• (un)stage files
• inspect diffs
• commit
• input polling in thread
• show content of new files
• discard untracked files (remove)
• use notify to watch git
• log view
• stashing support
• (un)staging selected hunks

resources (quick links)

• https://docs.rs/git2/
• https://libgit2.org
• https://docs.rs/tui/
• https://docs.rs/crossterm/

alternatives

• https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit