blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in rust

features

• fast and intuitive key only control
• context based help (no need to remember any hot-key)
• inspect/commit changes (incl. hooks: commit-msg/post-commit)
• (un)stage files/hunks, revert/reset files/hunk
• browse commit log
• scalable ui layout
• async input polling and
• async git API for fluid control

known limitations

• core.hooksPath config not supported
• revert/reset hunk in working dir (see #11)

motivation

I do most of my git usage in a terminal but I frequently found myself using git UIs for some use cases like: index/commit, diff, stash and log.

Over the last 2 years my go-to GUI tool for this was fork because it was not bloated, snappy and free. Unfortunately the free part will change soon and so I decided to build a fast & simple terminal tool myself to copy the fork features i am using the most.

installation

For the time being this product is considered alpha and not production ready.

release binaries

see releases

homebrew (macos)

brew install extrawurst/tap/gitui

install from source

requirements

install rust/cargo: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install min rust version: 1.42

cargo install

the simplest way to start playing around with gitui is to have cargo build/install it:

cargo install gitui

diagnostics:

to enable logging:

GITUI_LOGGING=true gitui

this will log to:

• $HOME/Library/Caches/gitui/gitui.log (mac)
• $XDG_CACHE_HOME/gitui/gitui.log (linux using XDG)
• $HOME/.cache/gitui/gitui.log (linux)

inspiration

• https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
• https://github.com/jonas/tig
• https://github.com/git-up/GitUp (would be nice to comeup with a way to have the map view available in a terminal tool)