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Products that do what Lazyworktree, a TUI manager for Git worktrees does
Inspired by lazygit, I have been working on a TUI to manage git worktrees easily, making some workflows for creating and managing worktrees a bit more straightforward. For example, creating a worktree from a PR/MR or from local changes. Executing commands on a worktree, or running a custom tmux session directly on a selected worktree. A lot of other tools are more CLI-oriented. I have tried to compile an honest comparison here: https://github.com/chmouel/lazyworktree/blob/main/COMPARAISO... Some of the code and documentation was written with an LLM if…
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I context-switch a lot. Someone pings me about a bug while I'm mid-feature, and I either: 1. `git stash` (and forget what's in there forever) 2. Make a "WIP: stuff" commit (clutters history) 3. Ignore them until I'm done (not great) Worktrees solve this perfectly – each task gets its own directory, fully isolated. But the commands are clunky and I kept forgetting the syntax. So I built a small CLI wrapper. Now my workflow is: ``` wnew feat/login # creates worktree + cd into it # ...do work... wcd # fuzzy-pick another worktree, cd there wgo main # jump straight to main ``` Dashboard…
Jan 2026 · github.com
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2019 · github.com
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I realised I was working on more parallel tasks with coding agents, but git branches became a huge bottleneck. Tried Git Butler but it just complicated things further. Found git worktrees as a solution but the git API was a bit too complicated for day to day. So thought I'll vibe-code this simple CLI utility to manage the process. It technically works with any setup – claude/codex/gemini + cursor/vim/whatever. Just manages git worktrees inside your repo and sets up your dev environment how you like it. Nothing fancy, just something I built to scratch my own itch. Figured…
2025 · github.com
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Track, report and automate GitHub workflows in Slack. Free
2020
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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
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Feb 2026 · github.com
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I run a lot of agentic coding sessions in parallel, each in its own git worktree. Every worktree points at the same local Postgres though, so the moment one branch runs a migration it changes the schema out from under the others. I'd end up with agents tripping over each other, or me babysitting which branch "owned" the DB at any given moment. I made this to fix it. I hope you might find it helpful too.
Jun 2026 · github.com
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Hello HN. This is my first webapp. It works like a pastebin, in which you can visually keep track of the changes you and others make to it. I was a little reluctant about posting it here because I'm not sure it meets the HN quality standards, but, as a beginner, I would really appreciate to have some feedback and/or tips. The url is: http://srctree.net/ An example of usage: http://srctree.net/1 Thanks!
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2020 · github.com
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Hey HN, I'm Fedor (solo founder). After ~20 years of watching devs fight Git, I'm building Branching. Branching streams your local edits to teammates in real time - no manual push/pull. It's Git-compatible and works offline. Why you might care - Teams see each other's changes instantly instead of in PR-sized batches - Conflicts surface ASAP while context is fresh (LLM-assisted merge is experimental, off by default) - Same GitHub remote, so no migration Ships today - VSCode extension + desktop app (macOS / Windows / Linux) - 3 small product teams have been using it for 1–6…
2025 · branching.app
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I built a CLI tool that lists out all the local git repos within a directory in an easy to read table format including relevant information such as last modified date and the status of branches in the repo, along with whether it is synced with remote or not. It also includes a bunch of flags to get exactly what you want in the format you want. I got this idea as I was trying organize the large amount of local git repos I had. I also found it particularly useful when traveling since I use a different device. In these cases, it is really helpful to know which local git repos I forgot to push…
2024 · github.com
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2015 · git-town.com
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Tuki is a small, open-source utility that lets you run one-off commands in production through Git, bringing version control and code review to production scripts. I built it after accidentally dropping a production table due to a console typo Key features: - Run scripts through Git PRs instead of direct console access - Built-in auditing via Git history - RBAC through standard Git permissions - Simple setup for non-Kubernetes environments - MIT licensed Demo & more details: https://github.com/hundredwatt/tuki Announcement blog post:…
2024 · github.com
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Hello! This is an attempt to make google3 style repo clones work with Git. In a HN thread a few days ago the idea sparked for me. It can be super useful for very large repos that need to be cloned for AI coding sessions that might only need a subset of files to accomplish something. Similar to google3, files appear to be there and can be read and edited but they are only fetched when they are needed. It works with normal Git commands so there is no need for a new CLI. On huge catch is, running grep will force fetch all files that grep glob matches. AI coding sessions run the Grep tool quite…
Jun 2026 · github.com
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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
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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
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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
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I put together a small prototype that might help folks like me who struggle with keeping their website’s blog active just for SEO. It’s a basic tool: you enter your Git repo details (owner, name, branch), pick a date range, and it generates a short blog post from the commits in that period. The idea is to give small businesses and solo devs a way to keep their blog up-to-date with actual product updates without needing to write new content. Right now, it’s still pretty minimal but I’d really appreciate any feedback, especially if you think this could be useful, or if you have ideas on how it…
2024 · git2blog.streamlit.app
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