gg
Shares rank 50 of 86 privilege escalation tools by recommenders
Recommended for efficient Jujutsu browsing and squashing, as a console.log replacement, and as a gh CLI alternative, though it only shows traditional diffs.
Recommended for efficient Jujutsu browsing and squashing, as a console.log replacement, and as a gh CLI alternative, though it only shows traditional diffs.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Efficient Jujutsu repository browsing and squashing
“GG makes that kind of repository browsing — and certain squash operations — much more efficient for me.”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “What is jj and why should I care?” “when I dragged and dropped a bookmark in `gg` then a light went on in my head”
Comment from 21 Apr 2026 in “Jujutsu Megamerges for Fun and Profit”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Only traditional diff, no side-by-side
“I use gg for this but I'd prefer a side-by-side diff and, ATM it only has a traditional diff.”
Comment from 11 Nov 2025 in “The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need”
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See all 86 privilege escalation tools, rankedWhat people said
All 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It began as a better `console.log()` for humans, but I ended up making it better for AI coding agents.”
“when I dragged and dropped a bookmark in `gg` then a light went on in my head”
“GG makes that kind of repository browsing — and certain squash operations — much more efficient for me.”
“I also built a tool that lets the dev/AI filter”
“Named gg for grep-ibility and ease of typing.”
“it's exactly what I needed”
“This is everything I wanted the `gh` cli to be”
“Finds the most recent of currently running action for the branch you have checked out.”
“`gg` gets used in a bunch of places (including a couple of bots)”
“I use gg for this but I'd prefer a side-by-side diff and, ATM it only has a traditional diff.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.