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…- rerun on file change, knows about .gitignore/.ignore etc (in rust) https://github.com/jonas/tig - instead of lazygit, mostly for easier git log viewing for me as I use straight git most of the time Otherwise a lot of crossove

comment by digikata · 2026-04-02 · in Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

If a TUI is an option, then `tig blame` is a good interface. https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by _ikke_ · 2024-07-12 · in "GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software

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…

comment by kaesve · 2024-05-06 · in Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

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.

comment by vonwoodson · 2023-06-26 · in Magit

I think https://github.com/jonas/tig and several other such tools are kind-of like that.

comment by Tomte · 2021-10-22 · in Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

…gO :<C-u>silent !tig<CR>:silent redraw!<CR> [1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive [2]: https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by ackyshake · 2021-07-08 · in A work-in-progress Magit clone for Neovim

…[1] https://girliemac.com/blog/2017/12/26/git-purr/ [2] https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit [3] https://github.com/jonas/tig [4] git log --oneline --decorate -50 --all --graph --remotes

comment by aequitas · 2020-11-17 · in Git is too hard

For people interested in magit-like features, but don’t use Emacs, I highly recommend tig ( https://github.com/jonas/tig ). Here’s a tweet with a quick video with me using it ( https://twitter.com/robenkleene/status/1299415895262081024 ).…

comment by robenkleene · 2020-09-11 · in Magit – A Git Porcelain inside Emacs

…the files I want, and then commit them. There is also lazygit, it's kind of similar, but different. https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by hibbelig · 2020-07-08 · in Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits

…a huge project in a few seconds), and it's a CLI so you don't even have to leave the terminal. [0] https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by fdeage · 2020-05-12 · in Learning Git from Novice to Expert

…clipboard" alias co="xclip -selection clipboard -o" Also: tig, Text-mode interface for git https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by laurentdc · 2020-04-13 · in Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

Check out https://github.com/jonas/tig , a ncurses-based text-mode interface for Git.

comment by xoob · 2020-03-06 · in CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line

tig is also fantastic for doing this. - u for hunks - 1 for individual lines https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by petepete · 2019-12-09 · in A walk through the Magit interface

…integrates well with `diff-so-fancy`[5] (amazing-looking diffs), `bat`, and `emoji-cli`. [0]: https://github.com/jonas/tig [1]: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit [2]: https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola [3]:…

comment by Seirdy · 2019-07-24 · in Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

Tig is an existing text mode interface for working with Git, FYI. A pretty useful tool: https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by jcrites · 2019-04-04 · in Git9: Git Reimagined for the Plan 9 OS

tig https://github.com/jonas/tig here are some screenshots https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasfonseca/sets/721576144707...

comment by lfx · 2019-03-08 · in Ask HN: What is the best keyboard driven Git clients?

This is missing pointing everyone at a phenomenal ncurses git log viewer: https://github.com/jonas/tig And another great bit: always do `git commit -v` for verbose commit edits. Read your diffs before you commit them.

comment by vngzs · 2019-01-16 · in How to teach Git

…and you don't need it if you use something like fugitive in vim, but its a lovely little tool. https://github.com/jonas/tig Think SourceTree but on the command line.

comment by AJRF · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

…https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/ ranger: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/ tig: https://github.com/jonas/tig/ ag or rg: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep And all my configurations,…

comment by codychan · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

…Very fast. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ---- tig, a text mode interface for git. https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by geowwy · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

But why? There are so many awesome tools like tig and magit! - https://github.com/jonas/tig - https://magit.vc/

comment by a-b · 2018-08-05 · in Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git

…to use Sourcetree and I loved it but it slowed to a crawl with bigger projects with long histories. https://github.com/jonas/tig Best screenshots I can find on google are ironically from the Atlassian blog:…

comment by pandler · 2018-08-05 · in Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git

I love tig https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by ktilcu · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

…quickly navigating around a repo and, the thing I use it for most, staging individual lines/hunks https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by petepete · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

Its a CLI interface for git. https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by maze-le · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

…like Git Cola or tig? I aliased `gl` (formerly `git log`) to `tig`. https://git-cola.github.io/ https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by JoshMnem · 2018-04-11 · in Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

…the use of visual tools like https://github.com/gitx/gitx , https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit , https://github.com/jonas/tig and aliases like `log --oneline --decorate -50 --all --graph --remotes`. It really changes Git from a bunch of…

comment by aequitas · 2018-03-14 · in Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way

I use https://github.com/jonas/tig for interactive staging and git CLI for everything else. Best of both worlds and I don't have to leave the terminal.

comment by repsak · 2017-12-18 · in Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations

…run cycles happen. tig is curses based, so no X11 needed, filled in a really nice itch of mine. [1] https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by filereaper · 2017-12-18 · in Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations

It looks like tig: https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by brimtown · 2017-08-09 · in Git: Using Advanced Rebase Features for a Clean Repository

…me, clone git itself ($ git clone https://github.com/git/git ) and open up the repo in tig(1) https://github.com/jonas/tig To be honest, I only in the past 2 years even bothered to view ($ git log --graph). Regardless of --graph getting…

comment by git-pull · 2017-08-09 · in Git: Using Advanced Rebase Features for a Clean Repository

…with the command line, mainly for quickly viewing recent commits, diffs and staging hunks. https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by petepete · 2017-08-07 · in Git v2.14.0 released

…like fugitive, I can travel back and forth through history. And if I hit q, I'm back in vim. [1]: https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by Watabou · 2017-05-10 · in Git 2.13

…which comes with P4V (Perforce visual client) and is free. To explore the git log, I use tig. https://github.com/jonas/tig It is a curses interface to git. Screenshot: https://atlassianblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/tig-2....

comment by partycoder · 2017-04-06 · in Better Git configuration

tig. It's been under active development for over 10 years now. https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by bacongobbler · 2017-01-10 · in Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

I use tig ( https://github.com/jonas/tig ) because it doesn't require me to leave the terminal and I find it does everything I need from a git UI without getting in the way

comment by wkd · 2016-08-29 · in Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

tig: https://github.com/jonas/tig ranger: https://github.com/hut/ranger vim

comment by nicwest · 2015-09-04 · in Ask HN: What's your favorite CLI or ncurses program?

Commandline with the occasional usage of [tig]( https://github.com/jonas/tig ) Once every few weeks I'll use [Tower]( http://www.git-tower.com/ ) for quickly looking up old commits

comment by floSchr · 2015-07-20 · in Poll: how do you use Git?

There's a nice command line interface git client called `tig`. https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by hammerha · 2015-05-09 · in Facebook PathPicker

I think you might like tig - https://github.com/jonas/tig - it provides a more interactive version of your showtree command

comment by lsjroberts · 2015-03-04 · in Gitless – An experimental version control system built on top of Git

…are on and a nice tree of what has happened on the source tree (merges, pull requests, etc.) [1] https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by xasos · 2014-12-31 · in My Amazon S3 Mistake

IMHO tig does this pretty well. https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by Tsukiko · 2014-10-14 · in Always bet on text

…for tig+gui. — [0]: http://beyondgrep.com/ [1]: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ranger/ [2]: https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by thenerdfiles · 2014-03-01 · in Tips and tricks for navigating large codebases

Want better? Use tig - https://github.com/jonas/tig

comment by manojlds · 2013-06-07 · in A better git log