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Guitar

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Two barsScore 5.5

Free tierNo free tier on record
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely3 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Guitar is ranked #24 of 54 in version control software on Freedom251. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows.

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Versioning model: distributed
Desktop platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows
Nested repositories: Yes

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The record

Product: Guitar is a Rust terminal interface for exploring and operating on Git history, with topology focused graph rendering.
Large repositories: The README describes browsing repositories with 500,000 or more commits and says history loads incrementally in the background.
Graph view: The graph can display commits, branches, tags, stashes, worktrees, and optional HEAD reflog entries.
File inspection: The viewer supports file contents, unified diffs, hunk only and side by side modes, line numbers, and wrapped long lines.
Git operations: The project says Guitar can stage, commit, reset, stash, rebase, merge, cherry pick, and perform other Git operations, including force push and discarding changes.
Authentication: For remote operations, Guitar documents SSH agent and key authentication, Git credential helper use, and in app prompts for credentials.
Integrations: The README documents support for Git remotes and immediate Git submodules, including submodule update and URL sync operations.
Requirements: Using Guitar requires a non bare Git repository, configured Git user.name and user.email, and SSH or HTTPS credentials for private remotes when performing network operations.
Distribution: The README says prebuilt binaries are published on the GitHub releases page and gives instructions for building from source with Rust and Cargo.
License: GitHub identifies the repository license as GPL 3.0.
Project status: The maintainer describes Guitar as a hobby project and cautions users to take care with its potentially destructive Git actions.
Limitations: The README lists no pull UI, force push only for the current branch, external conflict resolution editing, and search that does not match commit messages or authors.
Intended users: The README describes Guitar as a terminal Git client for exploring, filtering, and operating on large repositories.

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Sources

github.com/asinglebit/guitar· checked 4 Oct 2026