Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)
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…
This is a cross-platform graphical interface for JJ VCS, a Git-compatible version control system. It is designed for developers who want an alternative to Git with improved workflow capabilities. The GUI provides… 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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JSON Query▲152On 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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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’ve been in the MLOps space for ~10 years, and data is still the hardest unsolved open problem. Code is versioned using Git, data is stored somewhere else, and context often lives in a 3rd location like Slack or GDocs. This is why we built XetHub, a platform that enables teams to treat data like code, using Git. Unlike Git LFS, we don’t just store the files. We use content-defined chunking and Merkle Trees to dedupe against everything in history. This allows small changes in large files to be stored compactly. Read more here:…
2022 · xethub.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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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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I built simple Git-based CMS for Hugo static site generators. No backend, no database, no configs. Just login with Github, select your repo and start editing. If you use Hugo for blogging, feel free to check it out at https://github.com/arashthr/hugo-flow > Why did you make it? I wanted to be able to write posts on my phone, and it's not easy to do that with Markdown. Adding images is also always a headache: copy them, minimize and compress them, remember the correct syntax for images, and type the path. > How did you make it? I used Google Stitch for the design and…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ReGit: A Tiny Git-Compatible Git Implementation. Contribute to WithGJR/regit-go development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've created a GitHub Action for running commands on multiple platforms. This includes platforms that GitHub Actions don't natively support. It currently supports FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. OpenBSD can run on x86-64 and ARM64, the other operating systems run on x86-64. Some of the features that are supported include: * Multiple operating system with one single action * Multiple versions of each operating system * Allows to use default shell or Bash shell * Low boot overhead * Fast execution * Runs on both macOS and Linux runners Compared to similar solutions like…
2023 · github.com · 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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Cross-platform GUI for Git. Built with Monaco Editor and Electron. - adamsol/GitQuill
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ShadowGit▲20Hey HN, I built ShadowGit a while back to automatically commit code every minute to a hidden git repo (.shadowgit.git). Original goal was to easily rollback when AI tools break things. But I discovered something interesting: this minute-by-minute history is perfect context for AI assistants. So I built an MCP server that lets Claude/Cursor query this history using native git commands. The results surprised me: Before: Claude would read my entire codebase repeatedly, burning 15,000+ tokens to debug issues. After: Claude runs `git log --grep="drag"` finds when drag-and-drop worked,…
2025 · shadowgit.com · its alternatives →
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I started an experiment to let a WASM-powered webapp interact with a local git repo and see how well this works. It turns out, it works pretty well! I made it into a "git wrapped" tool that shows you when you committed the most, and what languages and files you most touched. Despite the scary prompt when you use the filesystem API everything happens locally and your code stays private. (You can of course also just try it on cloned public github repos). Let me know what you think!
Dec 2025 · gitrewind.dev · its alternatives →
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I finally got fed up with making work + personal Git repos work on my machine. Ever clone a work repository and accidentally make commits using your personal email? Or forget how to make your work repos use your work SSH key? Yeah... same. So I built the tool I've always wanted. GitPersona - a CLI tool for managing many git profiles on a single machine. Shoutout to my boy Codex for helping me finally ship this.
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I got tired of collecting open source projects in my chrome bookmarks so I decided to compile a curated list of: - Recently active projects on GitHub - Mostly dev tools (but also productivity, analytics) - Projects which are "Alternative to X software" My bookmarks are finally empty:D If you have a great open source tool you use, I'd be glad to hear your suggestions. Also, any feedback is greatly appreciated.
2025 · alternativeoss.com · its alternatives →
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Hi folks! My name is Alexander Shvets. People know me best as an admirer of raccoons and the creator of Refactoring.Guru Today I'd like to show you the project I've been working on for the past two years: https://gitbybit.com It's a Git course that runs inside your code editor (VS Code, Cursor, and friends), so you learn Git by using it in real dev environment. It's well-designed and illustrated. ## Who is it for? The course will be most helpful for three groups of people: - Developers who “use Git” but mostly as a black box. You know a few commands, but you want to actually…
Jan 2026 · gitbybit.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, About a year ago I shared a first MVP of a visual node-based system for CI/CD pipelines that I've been very passionate about. I've been building on it since, and it's now live. I've always liked building pipelines and workflows, but I've never liked writing YAML for anything more than simple linear tasks. Branching, conditions, loops, or trying to just run certain things in parallel always gets messy. So I built Actionforge, a visual node system to tackle some of these pain points. Instead of writing YAML yourself, you build workflows as graphs. While Actionforge still uses YAML…
Feb 2026 · actionforge.dev · its alternatives →
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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…
Feb 2026 · gitnav.xyz · its alternatives →
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Coming from the land of the mono-repo (ex-googler), I decided to embrace the multi-repo, plain-git style. Methought, “hey, submodules, what could possibly go wrong”. Well, how about everything: detached HEADs, impossibly tedious commit management, and just about everything else. "OKAY" I said, a simple Python script should be fine, right? Well, NO. It turns out to be more complex. So I thought "others have got this, right? My time in mono-repo land was long and someone will have solved this" — well, yeah NAH. I won't bore you (the longer, boring comparison is in the docs) but everything I…
Jul 2026 · its alternatives →
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Vershd▲4The effortless Git GUI for Windows, macOS and Linux
2020 · gitbreeze.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, My friends and I worked at Meta & Google. Once we’d left we realised a lot of the internal tooling didn’t have parity on the outside. Specifically, version control tools outside big tech are much harder to use than Google’s Critique and Facebook’s Phabricator, etc. Git is powerful but notoriously difficult to use [0]. Existing Git clients don’t make life much easier, exposing all the complexity by default. In practice we don’t need an equally complex GUI, and version control can be much easier to use. In our experience, it works best to expose a small number of features for an…
2023 · trunkflow.com · its alternatives →
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We're two engineers that got fed up with context switching. Why do we need to do a git push, open a browser tab, wait for some task to actually start, bite nails (or read HackerNews) for 10 minutes or more while dependencies are being installed for the 100th time and finally end up with an invalid YAML error. And for some reason this usually happens in the final stage of the pipeline leading up to the inevitable git commits "Fixed", "Fixed again", "Test", "Really fixed this time". We can do better. We set out to build Zippy. A CI/CD system that works from your terminal. No context…
Mar 2026 · zippy.sh · its alternatives →
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I built an Open Source tool that lets you search your Git commit history using natural language. You can like: •“When was login added?” • “What changed in the auth flow?” It embeds commit messages using OpenAI or Hugging Face models, stores them in ChromaDB, and queries them semantically with GPT via LangChain. Features: • Fast local search (local storage) • Natural language query interface • Simple Typer-based CLI with commands to list and manage embeddings Ideal for developers who want a smarter way to explore version history. GitHub:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Greetings friends! We at Glitch have been hard at work on something very important to us: making software tools easier to use and more accessible. We all remember how hard it was to get started using version control (or maybe we've blocked it from our minds...) but Glitch Rewind makes it easy to get started. It's a fun, simple, and visual representation of your project's history through time. Though the interface is simple it still has the full power of git under the hood! Our Medium post: https://medium.com/glitch/reinventing-version-control-with-g... Or try it out right…
2018 · its alternatives →
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The Indorse Ecosystem Reinvented
2020 · indorse.io · its alternatives →
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