gitin

gitin is a commit/branch/status explorer for git

gitin is a minimalist tool that lets you explore a git repository from the command line. You can search from commits, inspect individual files and changes in the commits. It is an alternative and interactive way to explore the commit history. Also, you can explore your current state by investigating diffs, stage your changes and commit them.

Features

• Fuzzy search (type / to start a search after running gitin <command>)
• Interactive stage and see the diff of files (gitin status then press enter to see diff or space to stage)
• Commit/amend changes (gitin status then press c to commit or m to amend)
• Interactive hunk staging (gitin status then press p)
• Explore branches with useful filter options (e.g. gitin branch press enter to checkout)
• Convenient UX and minimalist design
• See more options by running gitin --help, also you can get help for individual subcommands (e.g. gitin log --help)

Installation

• Linux and macOS are supported, Windows is not at the moment.
• Download latest release from here
• Or, manually download it with go get -d github.com/isacikgoz/gitin/cmd/gitin
• cd into $GOPATH/src/github.com/isacikgoz/gitin
• build with make install (cmake and pkg-config are required, also note that git2go will be cloned and built)

Mac/Linux using brew

The tap is recently moved to new repo, so if you added the older one (isacikgoz/gitin), consider removing it and adding the new one.

brew tap isacikgoz/taps
brew install gitin

Usage

usage: gitin [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]

Flags:
  -h, --help     Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
  -v, --version  Show application version.

Commands:
  help [<command>...]
    Show help.

  log
    Show commit logs.

  status
    Show working-tree status. Also stage and commit changes.

  branch
    Show list of branches.

Environment Variables:

  GITIN_LINESIZE=<int>
  GITIN_STARTINSEARCH=<bool
  GITIN_DISABLECOLOR=<bool>
  GITIN_VIMKEYS=<bool>

Press ? for controls while application is running.

Configure

• To set the line size export GITIN_LINESIZE=5
• To set always start in search mode GITIN_STARTINSEARCH=true
• To disable colors GITIN_DISABLECOLOR=true
• To disable h,j,k,l for nav GITIN_VIMKEYS=false

Development Requirements

• Running with static linking is highly recommended.
• Clone the project and cd into it.
• Run make build-libgit2 (this will satisfy the replace rule in the go.mod file)
• You can run the project with go run --tags static cmd/gitin/main.go --help command

Contribution

• Contributions are welcome. If you like to please refer to Contribution Guidelines
• Bug reports should include descriptive steps to reproduce so that maintainers can easily understand the actual problem
• Feature requests are welcome, ask for anything that seems appropriate

Credits

See the credits page

License

BSD-3-Clause