try-rs
A terminal workspace manager for creating and organizing temporary project experiments.
By The try-rs contributors
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About try-rs
try-rs creates date-prefixed directories for temporary projects and provides a terminal interface for browsing and opening them. It can clone repositories, create Git worktrees, preview folder contents, and open projects in an editor.
The tool supports Linux, macOS, and Windows, offers shell integration and completion, and includes options for naming, moving, and cleaning up workspaces.
Strengths
- Organizes experiments into date-prefixed directories
- Can clone repositories and create Git worktrees
- Includes a terminal interface with previews and tabs
Limitations
- The documented Cargo installation requires the Rust toolchain.
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the MIT license.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- The try-rs contributors
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Developers who create temporary projects and test repositories
- Categories
- System utilities, Developer tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the Homebrew formula
- Sources