Gut, an alternative git CLI

Gut, an alternative git CLI

Gut is an alternative git CLI for Windows, macOS, and Linux. I’ve built it using Golang.

Access the project here 📌
https://gut-cli.dev

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Gut is an alternative git CLI for Windows, macOS, and Linux. I’ve built it using Golang.

On March 30, 2023, gut reached the front page of Hacker News : https://hnrankings.info/35371469/
It was a great help for showing the project capabilities. You can find the post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35371469

Hacker News

Main issue with git

Git is a simple tool by design but not an easy one to use. Even if you understand the internals, it still can be hard to use because the CLI isn’t consistent in naming. Only muscle memory can fix it.
To remediate this issue, I built gut. It works seamlessly on an existing git repository and simplify working with code versioning.
Reading the principles of gut is a great introduction to the philosophy of the project:
https://github.com/julien040/gut#principles

Example

cd my-awesome-project

# Init a new git repo
gut init

# Do some changes
touch my-billion-dollar-idea.txt

# Commit your new file
gut save # Alias of gut commit

# Sync your changes with the upstream
gut sync

Features

  • Built-in credentials manager
  • Consistent naming of commands
  • Integration with cloud platforms (merge and diff opens in the web UI)
  • gut fix command helps you fix your mistakes with git
  • .gitignore template downloader
  • Simplified authentication with GitHub

Main Useful Commands

  • gut save - Commits changes using gitmoji
  • gut sync - Syncs changes with your remote repository
  • gut goto - Lets you rewind the state of your project to a particular commit by temporarily modifying the working tree
  • gut fix - Helps you fix your mistakes with git
  • gut revert - Reverts your project to a previous state to fix a bug introduced n commits ago
  • gut undo - Discards changes made since the last commit
  • gut ignore - Downloads templates of .gitignore
  • gut whereami - Shows where your HEAD points to (no more rev-parse)
  • gut switch - Creates a new branch or switches to an existing one

Technical stack

The CLI is built using Golang. To go faster, I’ve used the cobra framework. And to interact with git, gut uses a mix of shell command and go-git.

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