GitFourchette offers a comfortable way to explore and understand your Git repositories.
This software offers powerful tools to stage code, create commits, and manage branches. It sports a snappy and intuitive Qt UI designed to fit in snugly with KDE Plasma.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Clone a repository from a remote host.
- Main windows shows:
- Tab bar – Use the tab bar to switch between multiple repositories.
- Commit history – displays a list of commits in the repository, along with a graph to visualize how the branches evolve.
- Sidebar – exposes various facets of your repository.
- File list – shows a list of modified files in the working directory or in a past commit.
- Diff view – shows the evolution of a file between two revisions. It also gives you powerful tools to help you prepare commits with more precision. You can use it to stage or discard pieces of code at finer levels than the entire file.
- Status bar.
- Manage your branches.
- Fetch, pull and push – sync branches with remotes.
- Internationalization support.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux and macOS. Some important features do not work under Windows.
Website: gitfourchette.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Iliyas Jorio
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
GitFourchette is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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