gitui-org/gitui

GitUI is a terminal-based user interface for Git. The description calls it a blazing-fast terminal-ui for Git, written in Rust, and the README's headline expands that to "the comfort of a Git GUI but right in your terminal." Instead of typing long Git commands by hand, you launch gitui in a repo and get a keyboard-driven screen that shows your changes, history, branches and stashes. The feature list covers keyboard-only control with context-based help so you don't have to memorise hotkeys, inspecting, committing and amending changes with support for the pre-commit, commit-msg, post-commit and prepare-commit-msg hooks, staging, unstaging, reverting and resetting files, hunks or individual lines, the full set of stash operations (save, pop, apply, drop, inspect), push and fetch with remotes, a branch list with create, rename, delete, checkout and remote operations, browsing and searching the commit log and diffing committed changes, submodule support, and gpg commit signing with documented shortcomings. The README reports a benchmark against lazygit and tig on the Linux kernel's 900k-commit repository: gitui finished in 24 seconds using 0.17 GB of memory without freezing or crashing. The author lists known limitations such as no sparse-repo support, no git-lfs support, and credential.helper for https needing manual configuration. You would reach for GitUI when you do most of your work in a terminal but want a friendlier interface for staging hunks, browsing log, stashing or working in giant repos where graphical clients become unresponsive. It is written in Rust, MIT-licensed, and minimum supported Rust/cargo is 1.88.