Gitti vs GitUI

Gitti is a free, open-source terminal interface for common Git work, aimed at developers who prefer keyboard-driven workflows. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows and supports nested repositories. From its terminal UI, users can handle branches, worktrees, commits, merges, rebases, stashes, and tags. Views cover local branches, tags, remotes, worktrees, modified files, commit history, reflog entries, stash contents, and an application logging panel. Keyboard shortcuts, list filtering, and mouse input provide navigation and panel focus. Interactive staging and unstaging include line-level changes and a syntax-aware diff viewer. Commits and tags can use GPG or SSH signing. The reflog view supports creating branches, resetting, or cherry-picking historical entries. Real-time application logs can be exported to a file. Installation routes include Go, Homebrew, curl, PowerShell, and Scoop. Go-based installation recommends Go 1.21 or newer, and Git must be in PATH. The project is hosted on GitHub.

GitUI provides a Git GUI-style workflow inside a terminal, controlled with the keyboard and supported by context-based help. Users can inspect changes and commit, amend, stage, unstage, revert, or reset at file, hunk, or line level. It also supports saving, applying, popping, dropping, and inspecting stashes. Branch tools cover creation, renaming, deletion, checkout, and remote branches, alongside pushing and fetching. Users can browse or search the commit log, inspect committed diffs, and work with submodules. Commit workflows support several Git hooks; GPG commit signing is listed with shortcomings. GitUI is free under the MIT License, which includes an as-is warranty disclaimer. Listed platforms are Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows, with desktop platform support listed for Linux, macOS, and Windows. The project README describes GitUI as beta and notes that bugs or missing features may occur, while also describing it as reasonably stable for personal use. It does not fully replace the Git shell, lacks sparse repository support, and requires explicit configuration of an HTTPS credential helper.