GitUI vs SourceGit

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.

SourceGit is a free, open-source Git GUI client for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its interface supports repository operations including clone, fetch, pull, push, merge, rebase, reset, revert, cherry-pick, interactive rebase, and worktrees. For reviewing changes, it offers a visual commit graph, commit search, file history, blame, and revision or branch diffs. Image diffs can appear side by side, in a swipe view, or blended together. Other listed features include GitFlow, Git LFS, bisect, stashes, submodules, issue links, and custom actions. SourceGit can create pull requests on GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Gitee, and Bitbucket. Commit message generation works with OpenAI or another service that provides an OpenAI-compatible HTTP API, including Ollama. Listed external tools include Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Cursor, Sublime Text, Zed, and JetBrains IDEs. SourceGit requires Git version 2.25.1 or later. Linux has only been tested on Debian 12 with X11 and Wayland, and macOS packages on the Releases page are unsigned; a contributor provides a signed package distribution.