Tig – Text-mode interface for Git • Hacker News Board

Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

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Post by bkane521 » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

tnorthcutt wrote: post #19

text-mode interface for Git Based on the comments here saying they love Tig, I know I'm missing something, but: doesn't Git provide a text interface (the `git` command) to Git? I'm not trying to be obtuse; I genuinely don't know what Tig provides that Git doesn't already do, but would love to know!

Tig provides a GUI that is text-based, i.e. runs right in your terminal. It's essentially a shell friendly version of sourcetree/tortoisegit etc. A great tool on its own, but particularly useful for headless servers/remote machines.

Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

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Post by talkingtab » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 3:58 PM UTC

hibbelig wrote: post #8

Lazygit is an alternative that I like.

Second lazygit. My personal favorite at https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

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Post by randylahey » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 4:05 PM UTC

I've been using tig a lot recently; I've always just used git from the command line, but if you're working with a number of files, tig is hard to beat when you learn a few of the hotkeys.

Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

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Post by pacificat0r » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 4:17 PM UTC

Gitui is a better alternative

https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui

Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

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Post by desireco42 » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 4:18 PM UTC

I've been using Tig for years. It works, it works well, it is fast and mostly intuitive.

Usually people like it and want to use it after they see me using it.

Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

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Post by bxrxdx » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 4:21 PM UTC

I love tig.

Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

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Post by masklinn » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

tnorthcutt wrote: post #19

text-mode interface for Git Based on the comments here saying they love Tig, I know I'm missing something, but: doesn't Git provide a text interface (the `git` command) to Git? I'm not trying to be obtuse; I genuinely don't know what Tig provides that Git doesn't already do, but would love to know!

tig is a curses program, it's an interactive terminal GUI (a TUI), as opposed to a CLI e.g. you can browse and interact with your log rather than dump it in a pager and need a separate terminal to dive into a commit or whatever.

magit is a good alternative, it's not exactly a TUI because it works entirely inside emacs and uses emacs concepts, but it's entirely text-based.

Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

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Post by ocardoso » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC

pacificat0r wrote: post #24

Gitui is a better alternative https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui

> gitui currently lacks essential features in git like push, pull, and checkout. The priorities are the basics (add, commit), and on features that are making me mad when done on the git shell, like stashes and hunks.

Hardly a better alternative if it doesn't have all the basic features.

Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

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Post by yoz-y » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 4:33 PM UTC

pacificat0r wrote: post #24

Gitui is a better alternative https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui

What is the main feature that makes Gutui better than Tig?

Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

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Post by bsg75 » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 4:35 PM UTC

pacificat0r wrote: post #24

Gitui is a better alternative https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui

That is subjective. I have not warmed up to curses UIs that have window frames. YMMV.