Note: This document was generated by AI. It may not accurately reflect the actual state of the project.

Guitar

Guitar is a fast, lightweight Git GUI client written in C++ with Qt 6.
It provides an intuitive graphical interface for everyday Git workflows on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Notice (2026-07-02): AppImage support is planned to be discontinued because ongoing maintenance has become difficult. I am looking for someone to take over maintenance in my place.
（AppImage対応はメンテナンス継続が困難なため、対応を終了する予定です。私の代わりのメンテナーを募集します。）

Notice (2026-04-07): There are no plans to release a Mac version in the future. CI and nightly-build have also been discontinued.
（今後mac版をリリースする予定はありません。CIとnightly-buildも廃止されました。）

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Summary

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Features

Core Git Operations

• Commit — Stage/unstage files, write commit messages, and commit with a single click
• Branch — Create, checkout, rename, and delete local/remote branches
• Push / Pull / Fetch — Sync with remote repositories; supports --prune and push all tags
• Merge / Rebase — Merge branches or rebase with abort support
• Cherry-pick — Apply individual commits across branches
• Stash — Stash and restore work in progress
• Reset — Soft and hard reset (HEAD~1, --hard)
• Clone — Clone repositories from URLs or directly from GitHub

Viewing & Navigation

• Commit log with graph — Visual branch/merge graph with author avatars
• Diff view — Side-by-side and inline diff display with syntax-aware highlighting
• Blame — Line-by-line blame view with commit details
• File history — Per-file commit history browsing
• Reflog — Full reflog viewer for recovery
• Find commit — Incremental search across commit messages and file contents
• Jump — Quick navigation to any commit by hash

Repository Management

• Multiple repositories — Manage many working copies from a unified sidebar
• Working folders — Organize repositories into named groups
• Submodules — Add and update Git submodules
• Tags — Create, edit, and push tags
• Remotes — Add, edit, and remove remote entries
• Remote branches — Browse and delete remote branches

Advanced

• GitHub integration — Clone and search repositories from GitHub directly
• SSH support — Connect to remote hosts via SSH with key management
• GPG signing — Sign commits with a GPG key
• AI commit messages — Generate commit messages using a generative AI backend
• Dark theme — Full dark mode support
• Multilingual UI — English, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Tamil, Chinese (Simplified/Traditional)
• Credential helper config — Manage Git credential helpers from the settings dialog
• Trace logger — Built-in trace/remote logging for debugging

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Download Nightly Builds

• https://files.soramimi.jp/guitar/nightly/information.html

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Build yourself

Ubuntu

• https://soramimi.github.io/Guitar/build-on-ubuntu.html

Windows

• https://soramimi.github.io/Guitar/build-on-windows.html

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API Documentation (Doxygen)

• https://files.soramimi.jp/guitar/doxy/html/

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Screenshots

Windows

macOS

Ubuntu

Raspbian

Dark Theme

Haiku

Log and Graph

Diff View