Guitar is a Git GUI client powered by Qt 5.
The software is written in the C++ programming language.
Guitar is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Fast startup.
- GPG signatures are (almost) fully supported.
- Dark theme.
- Log and Graph.
- Diff view.
- Proxy support.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Raspbian (official distribution for the Raspberry Pi series of devices), macOS, and Windows.
- Internationalization support – besides English, there are translations for Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, and Russian.
Website: github.com/soramimi/Guitar
Support:
Developer: S. Fuchita and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

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