Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity

73 pointsposted 21 days ago
by indigodaddy

12 Comments

mr_vile

21 days ago

Not trying to be pessimistic here, but I feel like the author is being a bit loaded with the marketing text. There's many pieces of TUI software that do this exact same thing with "color and clarity" and the same fuzzy search, etc.

This repository here has a pretty exhaustive list of these softwares: https://github.com/indigane/git-graph-drawing

Anyway, congratulations to the author for actually releasing their work.

antonvs

21 days ago

Often when people write something like this, they haven't really looked for alternatives. It reminds me a bit of the rifle creed: "There are many like it, but this one is mine."

pdimitar

21 days ago

Oh that's a very valuable link, thank you!

RVRX

21 days ago

Serves a bit of a different purpose - but for working with git in the terminal I'm a big LazyGit fan - https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

I use it in neovim with https://github.com/kdheepak/lazygit.nvim

NSPG911

21 days ago

I use LazyGit as well, but the graph icons always piss me off so much. I've gotten used to it, but I'd love to change the icons.

mixmastamyk

20 days ago

Jeez ads on a gitlab readme, and no screenshots to see the annoying icons.

animal_spirits

21 days ago

Seconded, lazygit helps so much with understanding my index

lloydatkinson

21 days ago

> Unicode commit graph with per-branch colors

I think every popular Git client can do this, no?

I'm waiting for a Git client which can colour commits by category/areas/files. It would be helpful to see which areas of the codebase have the most commits. Especially useful if using conventional commits (eg. fix: correct usage of foo) alongside it.

Areas or files with a lot of commits tend to be sources of bugs or indicate other things.

You can write a script to find this sort of thing, but that requires you to remember to do it. If it was built in passively to a Git client, I think a lot more would be revealed.

eMPee584

14 days ago

Don't wait.. vibe-code, it's 2026!!1

hbogert

20 days ago

If your history looks like in that screenshot, then yeah, you definitely need like software like that