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Dev tools · March 30, 2023

Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git

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…

Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git launched on March 30, 2023 with 314 votes, #91 of 5,007 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

Visit gut-cli.dev ↗Alternativestop 2% of March 2023

In plain words

Gut is a command-line interface for Git designed to be more user-friendly than standard Git. It uses consistent subcommand syntax, such as "gut branch rm" instead of "git branch -d," making commands easier to remember. The tool prioritizes safety by preventing destructive actions without confirmation, blocking history rewrites on pushed commits, and disabling commits in detached head state. It is intended for developers who find Git's interface frustrating or error-prone.

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From the sources

Gut is a user-friendly Git CLI for Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux. With intuitive commands and streamlined workflows, Gut simplifies the process of using Git

In the maker’s words, at launch

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…

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