Gex

Git workflow improvement CLI tool inspired by Magit. This project is still under initial development, but I am actively dogfooding it and features should be added relatively quickly.

Aims

Primarily, this is a personal project since I recently switched to Neovim from Emacs and miss the simplicity and efficiency of using Magit. However, I do have some general aims, which are subject to change:

• [x] Simple - uncluttered UI.
• [x] Intuitive - it should be easy to learn to use gex.
• [x] Cross platform - primary focus on Linux, but should work well on Windows and MacOS.
• [ ] Configurable - certain preferences in gex should be configurable to suit your own workflow.
• [ ] Comprehensive* - you should be able to use gex to do everything you can do in git.

* gex supports executing arbitrary git commands with : for when something is not yet available

Non-Aims

• Magit port

While it serves as a major inspiration, I am not trying to 1:1 port the behaviour and functionality of Magit.

Installation

Crates.io

NOTE: You will need Rust on your system for this installation method.

console $ cargo install gex

Nix

Maintained by @Br1ght0ne

console $ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.gex

Usage

To enter gex simply type gex in console, optionally providing a path.

console $ gex

Navigation

| Key | Action | | ------------------------------ | --------- | | j / Down | Move down | | k / Up | Move up | | Tab | Expand item | | g / K | Go to top | | G / J | Go to bottom |

Git actions

| Key | Action | | ------------ | ------------------- | | s | stage item | | S | stage all items | | u | unstage item | | U | unstage all items | | F | pull from remote | | : | execute git command |

Gex actions

| Key | Action | | ------------ | ----------------- | | c | commit menu | | b | enter branch mode | | r | refresh | | q | quit gex |

Branch mode

| Key | Action | | ----------------------------------- | ------------------- | | b | checkout new branch | | Space / Enter | checkout branch | | Esc | exit branch mode |

License

This project is dual-licensed under either:

• MIT License (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

at your option.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.