[HN Gopher] Gitui: Terminal UI for Git
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Gitui: Terminal UI for Git
Author : stillicide
Score : 111 points
Date : 2022-09-16 09:32 UTC (1 days ago)
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| eterps wrote:
| Any lazygit users that switched over to gitui? If so, what made
| you switch?
| zuhsetaqi wrote:
| Lazygit is an alternative which worked great so far for me
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| https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
| Zizizizz wrote:
| I've used this non stop for months now, it's so good! You can
| get it from neovim as well as your git plugin and merge
| resolver if you don't want to use fugitive or something else.
| https://github.com/kdheepak/lazygit.nvim
| talkingtab wrote:
| I'm a long time user and big fan of lazygit. It substantially
| increases my productivity for the most common tasks. I am a
| sole developer working on multiple web site projects.
|
| The design works very very well for me.
| zmmmmm wrote:
| Just tried Lazygit and one thing that stands out is it is the
| first of these tools that offers some kind of support for
| submodules (like, I can select a submodule and then navigate
| into that context and back out again).
|
| It's great that all these options are becoming available and
| bringing ideas into the mix.
| thamer wrote:
| Gitui's README mentions that Lazygit freezes and sometimes
| crashes parsing large repos, taking the example of the linux
| repo, and reports that Gitui is more than twice as fast:
| https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui#3--benchmarks-top-
|
| At least for the stability issues, does this match your
| experience?
|
| I see others have mentioned tig here as well, I'd be curious to
| hear if they also find it somewhat slow and unstable. Gitui's
| linux benchmark lists it as being almost 11 times faster than
| tig.
| zmmmmm wrote:
| I use tig intensively and it does sometimes have little
| freezes etc but only on giant repos AND where the file system
| is slow / busy. Its a 2nd or 3rd order type problem to me. If
| you work all the time on that type of repo it might be more
| important.
| jblecanard wrote:
| Any tig users here ? I'm happy with it since then, looks like the
| feature set is pretty similar
| vlunkr wrote:
| Tig combined with this vim plugin is big part of my workflow:
| https://github.com/iberianpig/tig-explorer.vim
| samuell wrote:
| Tig is just awesome. So well thought out, with sensible
| shortcuts for every relevant action in each context. Must have
| gone a lot of thought into it.
| georgyo wrote:
| Happy tig user. Viewing git history without it is painful.
| rvz wrote:
| Nothing wrong with tig. It just works.
| sys_64738 wrote:
| Yep tig is my world.
| petepete wrote:
| I use tig daily. I've never used anything I like as much for
| quickly browsing through commits in a repository or staging
| individual hunks.
| synergy20 wrote:
| tig rules.
|
| gitui does not support vim keybinding for me, or I did not find
| out how.
|
| rust's size always surprise me:
|
| tig -- 600KB, gitui: 11MB
|
| similar size pattern for other utilties, in general, rust
| executable is about 200x larger than its c/c++ peers, and, they
| all linked to similar c/c++ libraries, looks like rust stdlib
| is pretty big in size to me.
| zmmmmm wrote:
| looks like there's a key binding file to enable vim bindings.
|
| Having said that, I'm also a tig user and at least at first
| glance, I prefer its simplicity. Gitui presents a huge amount
| of info on the default screen and spends quite a lot of real
| estate drawing borders around everything. Tig just takes me
| straight to the commit history, full screen and then I have
| single key actions to get to other views.
|
| The only thing I don't like with Tig is how little it binds
| to keys with the expectation that you set up your own
| mappings to git commands. I would prefer it baked more of
| them in so they would be standard and documented ... but that
| is a minor complaint.
| RootKitBeerCat wrote:
| RyEgswuCsn wrote:
| Is there a Web UI equivalent for tools like this, where one can
| spin up a web server pointing to a git repo on the server and do
| commit, diff, merging, graph visualisation etc. through a web
| interface?
| stereosteve wrote:
| I just started working on a project with this use case in mind.
|
| So far just a "browse" experience somewhat like GitHub, but
| uglier.
|
| Soon want to add ability to commit, similar to GitHub desktop,
| but without electron.
|
| Very WIP atm but hoping to work on it some this week.
|
| https://github.com/stereosteve/git-goggles
| drdec wrote:
| Not exactly what you are looking for, but github.dev provides
| much of this for repos hosted at github. Press . while
| accessing the repository at github.com to jump right into
| github.dev (this appears to require me being logged in so it's
| possible I configured this somehow).
| leephillips wrote:
| I use fugitive, a Git interface that operates from within [n]vim.
| There are many advantages to using Git from within an editor,
| especially as so many Git operations land you in an editor in any
| case; this way, you stay in your editor context, so, for example,
| you get completions from your other windows when composing your
| commit messages.
| suprjami wrote:
| I have used vim-fugitive for years to read large and small
| codebases. Its blame and re-blame interface is the best I've
| found.
| layer8 wrote:
| So, the main motivation/benefit over alternatives like tig and
| lazygit is better responsiveness and fewer crashes? Or are there
| other considerations?
| lysium wrote:
| Looks great and fast! Nice work! I'm wondering if the missing
| features for 1.0 will keep it fast. (The first thing I wanted to
| do is search the log and see the graph :-). Does not look like
| it.
| snicker7 wrote:
| Magit is an excellent and widely used Git TUI.
| beepbooptheory wrote:
| Have relied on magit for so long now I am not even sure if I
| "know git" anymore. Definitely can't imagine doing a
| complicated rebase without it, or (ab)using stashes so much.
| max_hammer wrote:
| But only available in Emacs
| ogogmad wrote:
| What's the learning curve if you're not an Emacs user?
| lvass wrote:
| It's quite linear if you're using the manual / C-h prefix.
| More like a spiral if you're like me and keep reaching for
| external packages to solve problems you're not sure you
| have. Either way it's really worth it.
| c54 wrote:
| Emacs with spacemacs or doom-emacs's spacemacs layer (both
| lf which use vim bindings aka "evil mode") is quite similar
| to vim as far as text editing goes. For me this made the
| initial learning curve pretty approachable.
| dan-robertson wrote:
| I suspect it's possible to only learn a few things, e.g.
| C-g to get unstuck, C-x C-c to quit, some config to have a
| key to open magit status or a clever bash alias, and then
| the keys in magit for which there is documentation (regular
| Emacs is also documented) and semi-documented in that when
| you e.g. press c to start a commit, a pop up appears with
| eg flags you can set or commit-like actions like
| reword/amend.
| ckolkey wrote:
| And neovim (via neogit)
| dan-robertson wrote:
| Neogit is a magit clone rather than secretly actually using
| magit code, right?
| lvass wrote:
| At least until they add an elisp interpreter to vim.
| jeremyjh wrote:
| Do you happen to know if neovim has a helm-ag analog? For
| the most part that and magit are the only two things I use
| in emacs anymore and would love to try something lighter
| weight.
| lvass wrote:
| There's vim-grepper but nothing really has a selection
| interface quite like Helm.
| _bohm wrote:
| I use telescope.nvim + ripgrep for what I believe is the
| same functionality
| hyperhopper wrote:
| Funny. I thought 'git' was a terminal UI for git.
| chrismorgan wrote:
| No, it's a command-line interface. For a decent illustration of
| the difference, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-
| based_user_interface and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-
| line_interface.
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