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24 alternatives to Gist management from the command line

Gist command line interface. Contribute to jdowner/gist development by creating an account on GitHub.

Gist is a command line interface tool for managing GitHub Gists directly from the terminal. It is designed for developers who want to create, edit, and share code snippets without leaving their command line… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Gist management from the command line launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2018 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub’s official free and open source command line tool

    2020 · cli.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Code snippet manager that runs on GitHub Gist

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Gitscout▲307

    A beautiful Github Issues experience for macOS

    2016 · gitscout.com · its alternatives →

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    GitUp▲275

    The Git interface you've been missing all your life

    2015 · gitup.co · its alternatives →

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    simple terminal UI for git commands. Contribute to jesseduffield/lazygit development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Seamlessly sync and manage your GitHub Gists locally

    2024 · wanyi.dev · its alternatives →

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    the:gist▲299

    Automating Notion shouldn't be expensive and complicated

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    GitHub takes on Trello with new project management tools

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2018 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    The New Native

    2017 · desktop.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Manage many git repos with sanity 从容管理多个git库. Contribute to nosarthur/gita development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    commit/branch/workdir explorer for git. Contribute to isacikgoz/gitin development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Make your gists actually useful

    2022 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHired▲360

    Hey HN - today I’m launching GitHired. A hiring platform that ranks developers based on what they actually build — not what they claim on a PDF. It’s called GitHired, and here’s the core idea: GitHub > Resumes Instead of trusting “proficient in React” bullet points, we analyze a candidate’s actual GitHub: their real tech stack their most complex projects how active they are what kinds of contributions they make which skills match your job description and yes, we detect fake “green square farming.” Why we built this Because engineering hiring is broken. Resumes are inflated. Activity charts…

    Dec 2025 · githired.tech · its alternatives →

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    A supercharged Git/GitHub command line interface (CLI). An official integration for GitHub and GitHub Enterprise: https://github.com/works-with/category/desktop-tools - donnemartin/gitsome

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi Hacker news ! I’m Julien and I built an alternative CLI for Git : gut. Even if I haven’t been coding for a long time (I’m in the first year studying computer science), I’ve always found git to be frustrating. The command naming is inconsistent and git lets you easily shoot yourself in the foot. I made gut, another git porcelain, to solve these issues. It provides a consistent naming of command. To do so, syntax is based on subcommands. For example, to delete a branch, run gut branch rm rather than git branch -d, same to delete a remote (gut remote rm) and so on. Gut also prevents you from…

    2023 · gut-cli.dev · its alternatives →

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    A webview based GitHub project app with native features

    2017 · justinfincher.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Gut▲98

    An easy-to-use git alternative to version-control your code

    2023 · gut-cli.dev · its alternatives →

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    A self-hostable clone of GitHub Gist

    2022 · drift.maxleiter.com · its alternatives →

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