Gitu is a terminal user interface for Git inspired by Magit.
It’s designed to bring a keyboard-driven porcelain interface to the command line, giving users a structured way to inspect repository state and carry out common Git tasks without leaving the terminal.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports staging and unstaging at file, hunk, and line level.
- Provides commit viewing and can open the configured editor at a specific line.
- Includes branch management with checkout and creation of new branches.
- Handles commit workflows including standard commits, amend, and fixup operations.
- Supports fetch, pull, and push with configured upstream or pushDefault settings.
- Offers log views for the current branch and other histories.
- Includes rebase operations such as abort, continue, autosquash, and interactive rebase.
- Supports reset modes including soft, mixed, and hard reset.
- Includes stash operations such as save, pop, apply, and drop.
- Provides Vim-like keybindings inspired by Magit, with an optional help menu.
- Supports configuration through a TOML file in the standard user config directory.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/altsem/gitu
Support:
Developer: altsem
License: MIT License
Gitu is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Text-Based Git Clients | |
|---|---|
| lazygit | Simple yet hugely popular terminal UI for git commands, written in Go |
| GitUI | Offers the comfort of a GUI git client but right in your terminal |
| Fugitive | Vim plugin for Git |
| Magit | Inspect and modify your Git repositories with Emacs |
| tig | ncurses-based Git repository browser |
| gitin | Commit, branch, status explorer for Git |
| GRV | Git Repository Viewer |
| ggc | Go Git CLI |
| bit | Experimental modernized git CLI |
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