GitUI provides you with the comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal.
GitUI provides you with the user experience and comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal while being portable and fast.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Fast and intuitive keyboard only control.
- Context based help (no need to memorize tons of hot-keys).
- Inspect, commit, and amend changes (incl. hooks: pre-commit,commit-msg,post-commit).
- Stage, unstage, revert and reset files, hunks and lines.
- Stashing (save, pop, apply, drop, and inspect).
- Push/Fetch to/from remote.
- Branch List (create, rename, delete, checkout, remotes).
- Browse commit log, diff committed changes.
- Scalable terminal UI layout.
- Async git API for fluid control.
Website: github.com/extrawurst/gitui
Support:
Developer: Stephan Dilly
License: MIT License

GitUI is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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