git-tui is a collection of interactive interfaces for working with Git from a text-based environment. Rather than replacing Git with a separate workflow, it extends familiar commands: users invoke git tui followed by the operation they want to inspect. This keeps the command structure close to standard Git while providing a more navigable presentation than raw command output.
The project currently concentrates on two common review tasks: examining diffs and browsing commit logs. Its scope is deliberately narrower than a complete Git client, making it better suited to developers who want visual assistance for repository inspection while continuing to use normal Git commands for the rest of their work.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides an interactive interface for git diff output.
- Provides a separate interactive interface for browsing git log output.
- Uses familiar Git-style command invocation rather than introducing an unrelated command structure.
- Lets users move through changed files while reviewing a diff.
- Includes vertical scrolling for content that extends beyond the visible area.
- Supports Page Up, Page Down, Home and End navigation keys.
- Falls back to standard Git when an unsupported command is requested.
- Includes a git command for explicitly forcing execution through Git.
- Handles tab characters consistently when displaying repository content.
- Uses FTXUI to provide the interactive text-based user interface.
- Can be built from source with CMake.
- Keeps subprocess input and error streams separated from the interactive interface.
Website: github.com/ArthurSonzogni/git-tui
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Developer: Arthur Sonzogni
License: MIT License
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