Inline and side-by-side
Switch layouts with Alt+I and Alt+S. Scroll sync can be vertical, horizontal, both, or off. Collapse to changed lines only when a file is mostly untouched.
Features
Every part of your Git workflow, in one window
GitComet is a desktop Git client written in Rust. It reads your repository directly with gitoxide, renders through the GPU, and keeps every repository on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded.
Review
Diffs you can actually read
Most of the time you spend in a Git client is spent reading changes. GitComet treats the diff as the main view rather than a preview pane.
Syntax highlighting
Syntax highlighting covers 44 languages, in the diff and in the editor views.
More than plain text
Rendered Markdown preview, side-by-side image and SVG diffs, and a minimap of the whole file. Search a diff with case, whole-word, and regular expression matching.
Staging
Commit exactly what you meant to
A commit is easier to review when it contains one idea. GitComet lets you split work apart without rewriting the file.
File, hunk, or single line
Stage and unstage at any granularity, directly from the diff gutter. Press Space to stage the current file and jump to the next one.
Discard with care
Discard a single hunk instead of the whole file, amend the previous commit, and get a warning before staging a file that still contains conflict markers.
Ignore without leaving
Add an untracked file to .gitignore by exact name, by its folder, or by extension, straight from the context menu.
History
History that stays fast when the repository is not small
GitComet was started because existing clients stopped being usable on codebases the size of Chromium. History loads in pages and renders while the walk is still running.
Rendered commit graph
A lane graph drawn on a custom canvas, tuned for repositories with tens of thousands of commits. Choose which columns you want and highlight the selected commit's chain.
Filter down to the change you want
Five history modes — everything reachable, first parent, no merges, merges only, or all branches — plus an author filter and per-file history.
Compare anything
Compare any two commits, branches, or tags. Compare any of them against your working tree, and the comparison updates as you edit. Browse the whole repository as it was at any commit.
Rewriting
Clean up a branch without writing a rebase todo by hand
History rewriting is where a GUI earns its place: the operations are easy to describe and easy to get wrong in a terminal.
Interactive rebase
Drag commits to reorder them, then pick, reword, squash, fixup, or drop. Autosquash groups fixup! and squash! commits the same way Git does.
Cherry-pick and squash
Interactive cherry-pick, squashing of contiguous commit ranges with a live message preview, revert, and rebase onto another ref.
Get back out again
Reset soft, mixed, or hard, and abort an in-progress merge, rebase, or cherry-pick. GitComet shows which sequencer state the repository is in.
Repository
The rest of Git, not just the parts that are easy to draw
Branches, remotes, and tags
Prune merged branches, set and clear upstreams, delete remote branches, edit fetch and push URLs separately, and create lightweight or annotated tags.
Worktrees and submodules
Worktrees are a first-class sidebar section, not an afterthought. Submodules show a diff summary and inline diffs, and any submodule command asks for trust before it runs.
Stashes and patches
Stash with or without untracked files, then apply, pop, or drop. Export a commit as a patch file, or apply one to the index or the working tree.
Push and pull the way you want
Pull as merge, rebase, fast-forward only, or fast-forward if possible. Force push with lease, and see how far ahead or behind the upstream you are.
Clone with progress you can cancel
Cloning reports live progress and can be aborted. Credential, SSH passphrase, and host-verification prompts appear in the app instead of a hidden terminal.
Blame that reads like history
Annotate any file at any revision. Lines are shaded by recency, uncommitted lines are marked as staged or unstaged, and any line jumps to the commit that introduced it.
Workflow
Fewer reasons to leave the window
Edit files in place
A built-in editor with syntax highlighting and optional autosave. Press Alt+E, fix the typo you just spotted in the diff, save, and stage it.
Embedded terminal
A real shell inside the panel for the commands no GUI should try to replace. Your external terminal and code editor are one shortcut away when you prefer them.
Command palette
Ctrl+P reaches close to 50 commands by name. Global back and forward navigation, repository tabs, pinned and recent repositories, and session restore on launch.
Customization
Make it look and behave the way you want
Themes, including your own
Four built-in themes, plus an automatic mode that follows your operating system and switches live. Custom themes are JSON bundles dropped into a folder — about 30 interface colours and over 40 syntax tokens. See the theme guide.
Typography and scale
Pick your interface font and your editor font separately from the fonts installed on your system, toggle ligatures, and scale the whole interface without touching your display settings.
Links back to your forge
Copy a permalink to a commit or a file for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Gitea, Codeberg, Forgejo, and AWS CodeCommit. Commit hashes and URLs inside commit messages are clickable.
Platform
Native on all three, including ARM
Windows
A signed MSI installer and a portable build, on x86-64 and ARM64. Also on the Microsoft Store.
macOS
A notarized disk image on Apple silicon and Intel, or brew install --cask gitcomet.
Linux
apt, AUR, Gentoo GURU, Homebrew, AppImage, and .deb, on x86-64 and ARM64. Wayland with an automatic X11 fallback, and WSLg.
GitComet needs a local Git installation of 2.50 or newer. It is licensed under the AGPL-3.0, and the workspace forbids unsafe Rust code outright.