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24 alternatives to Git Navigator – Use Git Without Learning Git

Hey HN, I built a VS Code extension that lets you do Git things without memorizing Git commands. You know what you want to do, move this commit over there, undo that thing you just did, split this big commit into two smaller ones. Git Navigator lets you just... do that. Drag a commit to rebase it. Cherry-pick (copy) it onto another branch. Click to stage specific lines. The visual canvas shows you what's happening, so you're not guessing what `git rebase -i HEAD~3` actually means. The inspiration was Sapling's Interactive Smartlog, which I used heavily at Meta. I wanted that same experience…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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I made a tool that made me faster at Git▲551
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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I made a git rebase TUI editor▲115
I use interactive rebase quite often, and particularly like the editor bundled with IntelliJ. But I do not always work with IntelliJ, and am not 'fluent' with Vim, so I tried to replicate roughly the same rebase experience within a TUI. I used a small TUI OCaml project i made last year. The notable features are: - Move commits up and down, fixup, drop - Rename commits from the editor (without having to stop for a reword during the rebase run) - Visualize modified files along commits - 'Explode' a commit ,creating a commit for each modified file (a thing I found myself doing quite often)…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learn Git Branching▲225
The most visual and interactive way to learn Git on the web
2022 · learngitbranching.js.org · its alternatives →
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Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git▲314
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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I wrote about book about rebasing in Git▲69
REBASE is a short and complete ebook that takes your productivity to the next level and gives you full control of your commit histories by teaching you the concepts of rebasing in Git.
2020 · rebase-book.com · its alternatives →
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Git Explorer▲225
Find git commands you need without digging through the web.
2019 · gitexplorer.com · its alternatives →
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ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python▲309
2020 · leshenko.net · its alternatives →
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Rebase-editor, a simple CLI app specifically for Git interactive rebase▲62
Simple terminal based sequence editor for git interactive rebase. - sjurba/rebase-editor
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Git2Log▲219
Turn your Git commits into a beautiful changelog for free
2024 · productlift.dev · its alternatives →
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Gitgpt – Natural Language Git▲108
Hey folks, Here's a quick and dirty tool to use natural language to get git to do what you want. Example: $gitgpt create a new branch called feature/test add all the files and commit with msg creating feature test then push to origin I haven't put it through the wringer yet, however it's worked well with some pretty straight forward day to day git usage.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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JSON Query▲152
On a recent screen share with our designer at my FT job, I watched as our designer struggled with checking out a repository. It was painful because existing Git clients are confusing and nearly user hostile. Us software engineers are used to Git and terrible UX, but it shouldn't have to be that way. So, I wanted to make something better. Been working on this one for a while now, and while it's still very early stages, it's stable enough that I feel comfortable sharing it with the world :) I wanted a few things to be really easy and clear: - Merging between branches is explained before you do…
2015 · satishmaha.com · its alternatives →
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Tempo▲118
Replace the Git CLI with a clear UI and AI assist
2024 · maoyama.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
13IC
I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)▲140
Personally, I think the JJ VCS (https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj) hit a point some time in this past year where I find it hard to find a great reason to continue using git. Over the years I've cobbled together aliases and bash functions to try to improve my git workflow, but after using jj, which works with ~any git repo and integrates great with Github repos, all of the workflow issues I ran into with git are not only solved, but improved in ways I couldn't manage with simple scripts. One example is the op log, which lets you go to any point in your repo's time and provides…
2025 · 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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Sourcetree▲137
Simplicity and power in a beautiful Git GUI
2019 · sourcetreeapp.com · its alternatives →
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Gitorials – Tutorials as Git Repos▲147
2017 · gitorials.com · its alternatives →
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Git–fiddle – Edit commit messages, author and timestamps during rebase▲60
Edit commit messages, authors, and timestamps during git-rebase - felixSchl/git-fiddle
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GitGuide▲8
Meet GitGuide a smart Git assistant for VS Code and Cursor.
2025 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Gitin – a minimal commit/branch/workdir explorer for Git▲107
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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'rebaser' improves on 'git rebase -i'▲66
'rebaser' improves on 'git rebase -i' by adding information per commit regarding which files it touched. - README.md
2015 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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Retcon▲93
Rewrite Git history with drag-and-drop and ⌘Z
2024 · retcon.app · its alternatives →
22GI
'git inject' – amend commits other than HEAD▲71
'git inject' is a git alias (see code at the bottom). It is similar to 'git commit --amend', but it allows you to 'inject' your changes into commits further back in history (using 'rebase'). If you're as pedantic as I am about the git history you're about to push into master (as far as I can control it, I strive to keep each commit conceptually coherent), you'll often come to a situation where you have a modification that really belongs in an older commit. It takes a few git commands to stash other changes away, commit the modification, then interactively rebase over some previous commit,…
2015 · its alternatives →
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Git Walkthrough – Tool to explore repos from commit #1▲5
Built this because I kept getting lost trying to understand how codebases evolved. git-walkthrough lets you navigate through commits with arrow keys and view diffs between them as uncommitted changes in VS Code. Just run npx git-walkthrough in any repo and step through the commit history. Press 'd' to toggle diff mode, and it shows you what changed between commits right in your editor. Handy for: * Understanding how an unfamiliar codebase evolved * Code reviews where you want to step through changes * Learning from open source projects Auto-restores your git state when you quit so nothing…
2025 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
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Git alias commands and shortcuts▲37
https://github.com/GitAlias/gitalias Do you use git? I have a big list of alias commands and shortcuts that I'm sharing on GitHub. I'm seeking suggestions and feedback now, and also seeking pull requests to improve the code.
2016 · its alternatives →

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