markzaytsev / sourcegit

Windows/macOS/Linux GUI client for GIT users

SourceGit

Opensource Git GUI client.

Highlights

• Supports Windows/macOS/Linux
• Opensource/Free
• Fast
• English/简体中文/繁體中文
• Built-in light/dark themes
• Customize theme
• Visual commit graph
• Supports SSH access with each remote
• GIT commands with GUI
  • Clone/Fetch/Pull/Push...
  • Merge/Rebase/Reset/Revert/Amend/Cherry-pick...
  • Interactive rebase (Basic)
  • Branches
  • Remotes
  • Tags
  • Stashes
  • Submodules
  • Worktrees
  • Archive
  • Diff
  • Save as patch/apply
  • File histories
  • Blame
  • Revision Diffs
  • Branch Diff
  • Image Diff - Side-By-Side/Swipe/Blend
• GitFlow support
• Git LFS support

Linux only tested on Debian 12 on both X11 & Wayland.

How to Use

To use this tool, you need to install Git(>=2.23.0) first.

You can download the latest stable from Releases or download workflow artifacts from Github Actions to try this app based on latest commits.

This software creates a folder $"{System.Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData}/SourceGit", which is platform-dependent, to store user settings, downloaded avatars and crash logs.

OS	PATH
Windows	C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\SourceGit
Linux	${HOME}/.config/SourceGit
macOS	${HOME}/Library/Application Support/SourceGit

For Windows users:

• MSYS Git is NOT supported. Please use official Git for Windows instead.
• You can install the latest stable by winget install SourceGit.
  • Note: winget will install this software as a commandline tool. You need run SourceGit from console or Win+R at the first time. Then you can add it to the taskbar.
• Portable versions can be found in Releases

For macOS users:

• Download sourcegit_x.y.osx-x64.zip or sourcegit_x.y.osx-arm64.zip from Releases. x64 for Intel and arm64 for Apple Silicon.
• Move SourceGit.app to Applications folder.
• Make sure your mac trusts all software from anywhere. For more information, search spctl --master-disable.
• Make sure git-credential-manager is installed on your mac.
• You may need to run sudo xattr -cr /Applications/SourceGit.app to make sure the software works.

For Linux users:

• xdg-open must be installed to support open native file manager.
• Make sure git-credential-manager is installed on your linux.
• Maybe you need to set environment variable AVALONIA_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS. See https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/wiki/Configuring-X11-per-monitor-DPI.

External Tools

This app supports open repository in external tools listed in the table below.

Tool	Windows	macOS	Linux	Environment Variable
Visual Studio Code	YES	YES	YES	VSCODE_PATH
Visual Studio Code - Insiders	YES	YES	YES	VSCODE_INSIDERS_PATH
VSCodium	YES	YES	YES	VSCODIUM_PATH
JetBrains Fleet	YES	YES	YES	FLEET_PATH
Sublime Text	YES	YES	YES	SUBLIME_TEXT_PATH

• You can set the given environment variable for special tool if it can NOT be found by this app automatically.
• Installing JetBrains Toolbox will help this app to find other JetBrains tools installed on your device.
• On macOS, you may need to use launchctl setenv to make sure the app can read these environment variables.

Screenshots

• Dark Theme

• Light Theme

• Custom Themes

You can find custom themes from sourcegit-theme

Contributing

Thanks to all the people who contribute.