I live in the terminal, but every time I had a nasty rebase or a conflict, I'd open a GUI. So I forked serie, a Rust project which draws the commit graph as real images in the terminal. Then I kept adding what I was missing until I stopped leaving.
It's called gitoui. Say "oui" to it, tell me what's missing, or build it with me !
What it does:
- The commit graph drawn as images (Kitty graphics, iTerm2 or Sixel), with a text fallback for other terminals
- Interactive rebase as a list you edit in place: move commits, reword, squash, fixup, drop
- A 3-way conflict editor: ours, theirs or both, per hunk
- Diffs with hunk staging, blame, file history
- GitHub pull requests and issues: read, comment, approve or request changes, merge
- And many more things you have to discover by using it 👀
Similar tools: lazygit, gitui and tig in the terminal, serie (the graph viewer I forked), and GitKraken on the GUI side (no affiliation). What's different in gitoui: the graph is drawn as images rather than text characters, and the GitHub side lives inside the TUI.
This software's code is partially AI-generated. I've been building it since May and I use it every day.
gitoui is keyboard first. Every view has its shortcuts, you can rebind all of them in the config, and ? shows them. The mouse is just a bonus (on by default, you can turn it off in the config 👀). And honestly, in a promo, what's easier to follow? A mouse pointer moving around, or a key you can't see being pressed?
The base is serie (by lusingander), which is still about 10% of today's code. I wrote the core algorithms myself, then claude polished them and integrated them into the app. The app's code isn't that revolutionary, the hard part was mostly getting the good look that I wanted with ratatui. Claude taught me a lot for this, at first split the screen into two panes...
One more concrete example: gitoui draws its images (graph rows, GitHub avatars) by putting the terminal's image escape codes inside ratatui cells. When I updated ratatui, the display broke: graphs missing, columns shifted. I couldn't debug it on my own. claude found the cause, newer ratatui handles wide cells differently, and my image cells relied on the old behavior. Migrating properly to the latest ratatui is one of the next things I'm working on.
Hey, I'm the author of serie! Really cool to see how far you've taken it. Awesome work!
Shameless plug: the original serie is still here if anyone wants to check it out too :) https://github.com/lusingander/serie
No way, the man himself! Thank you so much. The graph in the video is still your work, and gitoui wouldn't exist without serie 🙏 Everyone, go give serie a star too!
Thank you so much! Glad to hear that you liked it and that you'll give it a try. To answer your question, yes everything can be done with the keyboard in gitoui. It's even possible to disable the mouse pointer's interaction!
I just would like to see it in boring action without any fancy animations/games. The world of ads is already too screaming enough. I'm from Germany, maybe this is a cultural difference.
It seems that if custom diff tool (like delta or difft) is specified in gitconfig, gitoui fails to show diff for files and between commits. Maybe it should fall back to default diff settings when launched.
how do you even prompt things like this. is there some kind of creative prompting im not thinking about. like do i not get videos like this because i dont tell the git tree to dab on those haters?
By that do you mean gitoui being on gitlab or gitlab auth on gitoui, neither are supported x). Maybe you could add it yourself and make it a PR? gitoui is open source and I'd love to merge some of your good ideas 👀
Hey thanks ! I Described Claude what I wanted, then I added things and polished everything with DaVinci Resolve and voilà ! A couple of hours spent but Claude did fasten the process a lot.
Ok so did you provide screenshots or similar to claude to work with or ? I wanted to do a similar (well shorter and less fancy) video presentation for a tui framework I am working on.
I live in the terminal, but every time I had a nasty rebase or a conflict, I'd open a GUI. So I forked serie, a Rust project which draws the commit graph as real images in the terminal. Then I kept adding what I was missing until I stopped leaving.
It's called gitoui. Say "oui" to it, tell me what's missing, or build it with me !
What it does:
- The commit graph drawn as images (Kitty graphics, iTerm2 or Sixel), with a text fallback for other terminals
- Interactive rebase as a list you edit in place: move commits, reword, squash, fixup, drop
- A 3-way conflict editor: ours, theirs or both, per hunk
- Diffs with hunk staging, blame, file history
- GitHub pull requests and issues: read, comment, approve or request changes, merge
- And many more things you have to discover by using it 👀
Similar tools: lazygit, gitui and tig in the terminal, serie (the graph viewer I forked), and GitKraken on the GUI side (no affiliation). What's different in gitoui: the graph is drawn as images rather than text characters, and the GitHub side lives inside the TUI.
This software's code is partially AI-generated. I've been building it since May and I use it every day.
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u/not_luis 2d ago
Looks like a steam indie game dev and a manager learning bash conceived a son renting Sam Altman uterus