git gui
Shares rank 10 of 18 Git clients by recommenders
People recommend it for visually crafting commits and staging hunks or single lines, since it is bundled with git. Critics call its diff tools frustrating.
People recommend it for visually crafting commits and staging hunks or single lines, since it is bundled with git. Critics call its diff tools frustrating.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 70%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: 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.
- 2.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 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
Visually crafting commits, easy staging
“the perfect does-just-enough GUI when the main thing you want is to visually craft commits”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need” “staging different hunks (or individual lines) is super easy”
Comment from 18 Aug 2026 in “Splitting a Git Commit” Built-in, used for one purpose
“I use this only for the aforementioned purpose.”
Comment from 18 Aug 2026 in “Splitting a Git Commit” “that's what I use the built-in `git gui` for”
Comment from 26 Jul 2026 in “Git rebase -I is not that scary”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Frustrating diff tools and behavior
“I got huge amount of frustration with the diffs tools in git GUIs over the years”
Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand” “I get annoyed every day I touch some annoying behavior in gitk/git gui.”
Comment from 1 Sep 2026 in “Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk”
Other Git clients people recommend
The four most recommended other Git clients, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magit | 120 | 20 | 86% | 12 | 10 yrs6 owners | Approved |
| Sublime Merge | 22 | 1 | 96% | 10 | — | Approved |
| GitButler | 21 | 19 | 53% | 6 | — | — |
| Fork git client | 17 | 2 | 89% | 7 | — | Approved |
| git guiThis page | 7 | 3 | 70% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I get annoyed every day I touch some annoying behavior in gitk/git gui.”
“staging different hunks (or individual lines) is super easy”
“I use this only for the aforementioned purpose.”
“that's what I use the built-in `git gui` for”
“I got huge amount of frustration with the diffs tools in git GUIs over the years”
“they all feel like a hodgepodge of barely thought random features thrown in together”
“git gui is amazing overall”
“the perfect does-just-enough GUI when the main thing you want is to visually craft commits”
“"git gui" is not just a wrapper for commands; it has usefully different workflows.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.