Strand

A strand-like git GUI

Strand intends to be a simple but powerful graphical user interface for Git.

Principles

• Strand is designed to use only native git cli commands to interface with your repositories. This has the benefit of being able to support every git feature, as well as show a log of commands it has run.
• As a git GUI, Strand attempts to simplify complex git functionality, with the aid of the visuals. This includes functionality like auto-fetch, undo/redo, and the git graph.
• During early development, Strand is very opinionated, and minimal customisation will be available. This may change in the future.

Download

[!WARNING] Strand is currently in alpha, so many features will be missing/broken and there is no documentation. Feel free to try it out at your own risk.

You can download the latest release for your device from the GitHub releases.

Contributing

Strand is still in the early stages of design and development, so any contributions are likely to be rejected. If you'd like to get it running locally however, follow the steps below.

Local Development

1. You'll need Rust and Node.js (fnm recommended) installed to begin
2. Run corepack enable to install yarn
3. Clone the repository locally with git
4. Run yarn in the root of the repository to install the JavaScript dependencies
5. Run yarn tauri dev to start the dev server

The UI is built with React, and the code can be found in the src folder.

The src-tauri folder contains the Rust code. If you want to take advantage of the sqlx checked queries, you'll need to create a .env file in this folder with the DATABASE_URL set to the location of the Sqlite file, e.g. sqlite:/Users/you/Library/Application Support/dev.bengrant.strand/data.db.