Git CLI Tools

Collection of open source CLI tools for Git.
Feel free to contribute.

Clients

• forgit - Utility tool powered by fzf for using git interactively.
• fugitive.vim - Git plugin for Vim.
• gitin - Commit/branch/workdir explorer for git.
• Gitu - TUI Git client inspired by Magit.
• GitUI - Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in rust.
• lazygit - Simple terminal UI for git commands.
• Magit - Git porcelain inside Emacs.
• Neogit - Magit for neovim.
• tig - Text-mode interface for git.

Autocomplete

• bit - Modern Git CLI.
• gitsome - Supercharged Git command line interface (CLI).

Diff

• delta - Viewer for git and diff output.
• diff-so-fancy - Strives to make your diffs human readable instead of machine readable.
• diffr - Yet another diff highlighting tool.
• Difftastic - Experimental diff tool that compares files based on their syntax.

Undo/Fixup

• BFG Repo-Cleaner - Removes large or troublesome blobs.
• git revise - Tool for doing efficient in-memory commit rebases & fixups.
• git-absorb - git commit --fixup, but automatic.
• git-autofixup - Create fixup commits for topic branches.
• git-fixup - Fighting the copy-paste element of your rebase workflow.
• gitjk - Undo what you just did in git.
• ugit - Helps undo git commands.

Merge/Rebase

• Git Interactive Rebase Tool - Native cross-platform full feature terminal-based sequence editor for git interactive rebase.
• git when-merged - Determine when a particular commit was merged into a git branch.
• git-fiddle - Edit commit messages, authors, and timestamps during git-rebase.
• git-imerge - Incremental merge and rebase for Git.

Hooks

• Git Hound - Git plugin that prevents sensitive data from being committed.
• git-secrets - Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories.
• husky - Modern native Git hooks made easy.
• overcommit - Fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager.
• pre-commit - Framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

Project Management

• git-appraise - Distributed code review system for Git repos.
• git-bug - Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git, with bridges.

Utilities

• Git extras - Repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more.
• Git plus - Set of git utilities.
• Git Town - Generic, high-level Git workflow support.
• git trim - Quickly remove merged, pruned, untracked, or stale branches within a repository.
• git-fresh - Keep your Git repo fresh.
• git-friendly - Collection of shell scripts for making pulling, pushing, branching, merging, and stashing with Git fast and painless.
• git-open - Open the repo website (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) in your browser.
• git-recall - Interactive way to peruse your git history from the terminal.
• git-recent - See your latest local git branches.
• git-toolbelt - Suite of useful Git commands that aid with scripting or every day command line usage.
• legit - Git for Humans, Inspired by GitHub for Mac.

Multi Repo

• Gita - Command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.
• gitbatch - Manage your git repositories in one place.
• gitup - Console script that allows you to easily update multiple git repositories at once.
• mgitstatus - Show uncommitted, untracked and unpushed changes for multiple Git repos.
• mu-repo - Tool to help in dealing with multiple git repositories.
• vcstool - Command line tool designed to make working with multiple repositories easier.

Metrics

• GIT quick statistics - Simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.
• git-cal - GitHub like contributions calendar on terminal.
• git-sizer - Compute various size metrics for a Git repository, flagging those that might cause problems.
• git-stats - Local git statistics including GitHub-like contributions calendars.
• onefetch - Git repository summary on your terminal.

Git Flow

• git-flow - Git extensions to provide high-level repository operations for Vincent Driessen's branching model.
• gitflow-avh - Git extensions to provide high-level repository operations for Vincent Driessen's branching model.

GitHub

• GitHub CLI - GitHub’s official command line tool.
• gitsome - Supercharged GitHub command line interface (CLI).
• hub - Command-line tool that makes git easier to use with GitHub.

Miscellaneous

• ghq - Remote repository management made easy.
• git filter-repo - Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement).
• Git Large File Storage - Git extension for versioning large files.
• git-annex - Managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git.
• git-branchless - Suite of tools to help you visualize, navigate, manipulate, and repair your commit history.
• git-chglog - CHANGELOG generator implemented in Go (Golang).
• git-crypt - Transparent file encryption in git.
• git-issue - Git-based decentralized issue management.
• git-secret - Bash-tool to store your private data inside a git repository.
• git-sim - Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command.
• git-standup - Recall what you (or someone else in your team) did on the last working day.