tig VS gitui

> I would really like it if Magit was a standalone program, rather than an Emacs package, so that I could just switch to a more reasonable editor.

Always curious with folks who request this whether they've tried `tig` (https://jonas.github.io/tig/)?

Not sure what part of Magit you're looking for, but the basic workflow of jumping to changes and interactive staging works just as well to me in `tig` (with Vim) as Magit.

Use tig. This TUI (terminal user interface) is halfway between the GUI and the command line. It basically does the same thing as the previous command, but it’s easier on the eyes while allowing you to stay in the terminal. It will also make it easier to see the diff for a particular commit.

If you want an interactive commit graph, among other features, look at tig https://jonas.github.io/tig/

https://github.com/jonas/tig is one of the first things I install on a new dev machine. It's a really nice UI for staging files or hunks. Since it's just a companion to the git CLI, it feels much more focused than full-blown git GUIs, and doesn't do anything magical.

Related but I use tig, a TUI, a lot to examine the state of my working tree and index and stage/unstage/reset changes piecemeal. It works great.

I'd like to plug [tig](https://github.com/jonas/tig) for those who don't use emacs. I see lazygit recommended here too, but I've been using tig for years now and love it's simplicity.

Try tig

I'm normally a CLI git (and tig) user.

There're multiple solutions like this and I've used some of them over the past years.

- There's obviously the fantastic Magit (https://github.com/magit/magit) which is an Emacs Plugin but you can configure your Emacs start up just with Magic and nothing else so that Emacs is only used as a TUI Git client. I did this for a while.

- There's GitUI written in Rust (https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui) I did use this for a long time but recently switched over to LazyGit for the better Vim bindings and having more features

- LazyGit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) is what I'm using right now and I'm mostly happy

I actually wrote my own in C some years ago called Gitsi (https://github.com/terhechte/gitsi).

One thing that I added that (as far as I know) none of the others have and I sorely miss is VIM number based movements. So you can say 4j and jump 4 selections down. This makes it much faster (for me) to jump to the one file I'd like to commit. I ultimately stopped developing Gitsi because I didn't have the time to implement all the features others had readily available.

I do prefer TUI based Git clients to full blown GUI apps because of the keyboard movement. So I can quickly enter do something and exit, while staying in the terminal

I was missing interactive rebase, as it is missing from libgit2

https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/issues/32

I have this feeling with all rust apps using crossterm crate as their backend like GitUI for example

GitUI is a terminal UI for git written in Rust. We aim to simplify common git tasks in a fast, keyboard-only and cross platform way without leaving your beloved CLI.

The terminal applications I used are GitUi and LazyGit. Both are very good and have almost all what you need.