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…
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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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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 shooting yourself. It provides nice defaults and always prompt you before doing something destructive. Also, it won’t allow you to rewrite the history if it has been pushed to the remote. Creating commits in detached head is also prohibited. Finally, git was made when GitHub and others didn’t existed yet. To diff commits, gut opens the compare view in the browser. And to merge a branch, gut opens a pull request. I have been working on this project for the past few months and I am happy to be able to share it. I hope you’ll like it. Any suggestions is welcome ! Repo: https://github.com/julien040/gut
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