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8 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Git Clients

Our recommended text-based Git clients, captured in a legendary LinuxLinks chart. We only feature free and open source software here.

Git is one of a number of open source revision control systems available for Linux. We recommend the finest GUI-based tools.

shallow-backup lets you easily create lightweight backups of installed packages, applications, fonts and dotfiles.

GitQlient, pronounced as git+client is a multi-platform Git client originally forked from QGit.

SourceGit is a lightweight Git desktop client.

Bit is an experimental modernized git CLI built on top of git that provides happy defaults and other niceties.

GitFourchette offers powerful tools to stage code, create commits, and manage branches.

File comparison compares the contents of computer files, finding their common contents and their differences. The result is known as a diff.

GitButler is a Git branch management tool, built from the ground up for modern workflows.

Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

Hercules is a fast and highly customizable Git repository analysis engine. It’s written in the Go language.

git-xargs is a command-line tool (CLI) for making updates across multiple GitHub repositories with a single command.

git-town automates the creation, synchronization, shipping, and cleanup of Git branches.

git-toolbelt is a suite of useful Git commands that aid with scripting or every day command line usage.

git-standup lets you recall what you did on the last working day.