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About Guitar
Guitar is a graphical Git client built with Qt. It shows a repository's commit history as a graph, displays diffs for changed files and lets you stage changes before committing, all from a desktop window rather than the command line.
The project has a long commit history and includes Linux desktop packaging files. Its README notes that the document was generated by AI and may not be fully accurate, so the documentation is thin.
Strengths
- Visual commit graph
- Diff view and staging in one window
- Cross-platform Qt application
Limitations
- README is AI-generated and may be inaccurate
- Smaller community than the major Git GUIs
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download from GitHub.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- soramimi
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- A lightweight Git GUI on a Linux desktop
- Categories
- Git clients
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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SourceGit
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Gitnuro
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Gittyup
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GitFiend
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SmartGit
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Sublime Merge
A fast cross-platform Git client from the makers of Sublime Text with line-level staging and merging.
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Git
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