Top 6 git-client Open-Source Projects

GitExtensions

25 7,503 9.7 C#

Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).

Project mention: Git Branches: Intuition and Reality | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-23

I agree that git is almost asking you to juggle commits.
My preference is to use temporary branches and cherry-picking instead of stashing; I mostly use a gui* to work with git so it is easy to select the two or three commits to cherry-picking or see visually if an interactive rebase would work.
* https://gitextensions.github.io/

go-git

20 5,476 9.0 Go

A highly extensible Git implementation in pure Go. (by go-git)

Project mention: Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself to GitHub | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-29

I interpret "aims to be fully compatible" as meaning the operations it implements are intended to be compatible with how Git implements those operations. I do not interpret this statement as saying they implement all features of Git.
They offer a document which directly shows what is and isn't supported, and it specifically notes quite a few things that aren't supported yet: https://github.com/go-git/go-git/blob/master/COMPATIBILITY.m...
The godoc also says right upfront it "nowadays covers the majority of the plumbing read operations and some of the main write operations, but lacks the main porcelain operations such as merges." - https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-git/go-git/v5#pkg-overview
> I'm saying it's not a reasonable choice over just using git directly, and is unlikely to ever be.
OK, that's apparently true for your use-case. But again, what go-git implements is directly useful to a number of very popular projects, as well as literally two thousand less popular ones.
I find the exported functionality to be high quality, at least for my own use-case. I'm not commenting on the code quality. If I need a shed for bikes, and someone is giving out free but ugly bikesheds, I'm thankful. I don't complain about the color of the bikeshed.

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abapGit

2 1,451 9.6 ABAP

Git client for ABAP
GitQlient

5 816 7.8 C++

GitQlient: Multi-platform Git client written with Qt.
commit

1 240 7.4 Rust

Command palette-style Git client for blazing-fast commits. (by m1guelpf)

Project mention: Show HN: Command palette-style Git client | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-14

console-git-wrapper

2 1 0.0 Shell

Symple console git client wrapper

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).