Lighter than the rest.
A fast, keyboard-friendly Git GUI for Linux, macOS and Windows, built with Rust and Tauri.
- Small and fast. A native Rust backend with a web UI: the Linux
.debis about 13 MB and the Windows installer about 6 MB. The graph pages through history, so repositories with hundreds of thousands of commits stay responsive. - Native on Linux. Built for Wayland first (NVIDIA included), and works on X11, macOS and Windows.
- Keyboard-first. Every action is in the command palette (Ctrl+K) and can be bound to a shortcut.
- Real Git underneath. Reads go through
libgit2; every write goes through your systemgit, so hooks, LFS, signing and credential helpers behave exactly like on the command line.
| Platform | Package |
|---|---|
| Arch Linux | yay -S twig-bin (AUR) |
| Debian / Ubuntu | .deb from the latest release (x86_64 and ARM64) |
| Fedora / openSUSE | .rpm from the latest release (x86_64 and ARM64) |
| Any Linux | .AppImage from the latest release |
| macOS | Universal .dmg (Intel and Apple Silicon) |
| Windows | -setup.exe installer |
.deb, .rpm, AppImage, macOS and Windows installs update themselves from inside the app; the AUR
package updates through pacman. macOS and Windows builds are not code-signed yet, so the first
launch shows a security prompt.
Open a repository from the terminal with twig . (or twig path/to/repo …); a running Twig picks
it up as a new tab.
- Commit graph with coloured lanes, branch and tag pills, signature badges and unpushed markers. Search by message, author or SHA, filter the graph, or find the commits that added a string.
- Staging down to the line: stage, unstage or discard whole files, single hunks or selected lines. Tree or flat file list with a filter.
- Commit box with amend, sign-off, co-authors, conventional-commit type/scope, templates, message history and a "skip hooks" toggle. GPG and SSH commit signing, set up from Settings.
- Diffs with syntax highlighting, word-level changes, unified or split view, search, hidden-line expansion and image/audio previews. Huge diffs render only what is on screen.
- Branches, tags and remotes with right-click menus: checkout, merge, rebase, set upstream, compare, push and delete. Drag a branch onto another to merge or rebase.
- Stashes you can inspect, rename or turn into a branch, and stash only the files you pick. Submodules, worktrees and Git LFS (tracking, locks, prune) each have their own panel.
- Interactive rebase: reorder by dragging and set pick, reword, edit, squash, fixup or drop per commit, or with one key per row.
- Cherry-pick, revert, squash and reset straight from the graph, including ranges of selected commits. Select two commits to diff them against each other.
- Bisect from the graph: mark good/bad/skip and watch the candidates shrink.
- Undo history: every HEAD movement from the reflog, restorable in one click.
A banner shows any merge, rebase or cherry-pick in progress, with Continue, Skip and Abort. For each conflicted file you can take ours or theirs, open a three-way view to pick or combine every hunk, edit the text, or launch your external merge tool.
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| Command palette: every action, branch, tab and repository is a few keystrokes away. | Code search over the working tree or any commit, with regex, case and path filters. |
Blame and file history follow renames, colour lines by age and let you re-blame the line's previous revision.
- Sign in with GitHub (device flow) or a token, kept in your OS keyring and never in a config file.
- Clone from your account, browse pull/merge requests with their files and checks, check them out, open new ones (including from forks on GitHub) and see CI status on branches. Create new GitHub repositories from the app. GitHub Enterprise and self-hosted GitLab/Gitea are supported.
- HTTPS fetch and push use your stored GitHub token automatically.
- Tabs, windows and groups: many repositories in tabs, several windows, repository groups and a dashboard that fetches or pulls them all at once.
- Notifications for new upstream commits and finished CI runs.
- Per-repository settings, custom keyboard shortcuts and settings import/export.
Dark and light themes, any accent colour, your own fonts and fully custom colour themes. Available in English and Polish.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+K | Command palette |
| Ctrl+Enter | Commit |
| Ctrl+Shift+P / L / F | Push / Pull / Fetch |
| Ctrl+Shift+G | Search code |
| Ctrl+Shift+H | Undo history |
| Ctrl+F | Search the graph or the diff (whichever has focus) |
| Alt+↑ / ↓ | Previous / next change in a diff |
| Shift+F10 | Context menu for the selected item |
| Ctrl+O / Ctrl+W | Open repository / close tab |
| Ctrl+Tab | Next tab |
| Ctrl+B | Toggle sidebar |
All shortcuts can be changed in Settings → Keybindings.
Requirements: Rust 1.77+, Node.js 20+ (CI uses 22) and, on Linux, WebKitGTK 4.1.
# Arch / CachyOS
sudo pacman -S webkit2gtk-4.1 gtk3 libappindicator-gtk3
# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libgtk-3-dev libappindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev libssl-dev
npm install
npm run tauri dev # development, with hot reload
npm run tauri build # release build and packages in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/Checks run in CI on every push: npm run check, npm test, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings,
cargo test and an end-to-end smoke test that drives the real app.
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| App shell | Tauri v2 (Rust + system WebView) |
| Frontend | Svelte 5, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS v4 |
| Git reads | git2 (libgit2), in-process |
| Git writes | System git CLI (hooks, LFS, signing and credential helpers just work) |
| Secrets | OS keyring (Secret Service, Keychain, Credential Manager) |
The frontend never touches Git directly: it calls typed Tauri commands, and Rust does the work. AGENTS.md describes the architecture, conventions and key files in detail, and ROADMAP.md lists what's next.
Issues and pull requests are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md.
AGPL-3.0. Copyright 2026 Igor Kalicinski.