GitIDE

A lightweight IDE built on Electron that combines Git version control with code editing, integrated terminal, and project management — all in one application.

GitIDE started as a fork of GitHub Desktop and evolved into a full development environment where you can edit code, run terminals, manage tasks, and handle Git operations without switching between applications.

Key Features

Code Editor

• Multi-file editing with tabs and unsaved changes tracking

• Syntax highlighting for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, HTML, CSS, JSON, YAML, shell, and more (powered by CodeMirror 6)

• Markdown editing with rich formatting toolbar using Milkdown

• File explorer with create, delete, rename, and drag-and-drop support

• Editor settings including theme, font size, line height, and auto-save

Integrated Terminal

• Up to 4 terminals per repository running simultaneously

• Flexible layouts — single, split columns, split rows, or grid

• Persistent state across repository switches

• Large scrollback buffer (10,000 lines) for long-running tasks

• Terminal indicators showing which repositories have active sessions

• Quit confirmation when terminals are running

Task & Issue Management

• GitHub Projects V2 integration for task tracking

• Issues panel with filtering by state (open/closed/all)

• Task pinning and active task designation

• Issue detail view with labels and project status

Git Operations

• Branch management and switching

• Commit creation with staging

• Push, pull, and fetch

• Stash management

• Merge and rebase

• History visualization with diffs

Developer Workflow

• Dev script buttons — auto-detects run.sh, start-dev.sh, stop-dev.sh, restart-dev.sh

• Wiki links — navigate between repositories with [[repo-name/file-path]] syntax in markdown (broken lol)

• Custom action buttons — configurable buttons for your workflow

Tabs

GitIDE organizes your workflow into five main tabs:

Tab	Purpose
Code	File explorer, editor, and terminal
Changes	Git staging and commit
History	Commit log and diffs
Issues	Repository issues from GitHub
Tasks	GitHub Projects V2 tasks

Building & Running

# Build and run production version
./run.sh

# Development mode (alternative)
yarn
yarn build:dev
yarn start

Requirements: Node.js 20+

Tech Stack

• Electron — desktop application framework

• React — UI components

• TypeScript — type-safe codebase

• CodeMirror 6 — code editor

• Milkdown — markdown editor

• xterm.js — terminal emulator

• node-pty — terminal backend

License

MIT