Why MyGit
With an agent writing the code, most of your time in git goes to looking at what changed. MyGit makes that quick:
- See every change as it lands: the window refreshes while the agent works, each file side by side with syntax highlighting. Lockfiles, minified and generated files fold away, and changed pictures show before and after.
- Keep what's right: fix a line right in the diff, stage the files, changes or lines you want, and commit.
- Send back what isn't: comment on the lines to redo, copy the comments as Markdown, each with its file, lines and code, and paste them to Claude Code, Codex or a colleague.
MyGit reads the repository, not an agent's session, so it works the same with any agent, with several at once, and with your own edits.
| How you look at an agent's changes today | What MyGit does instead |
|---|
| The agent's own diff view | Works with every agent, and lets you stage single lines and fix the code before you commit |
| Opening an IDE | Opens in a moment, in a fraction of the memory |
git diff in a terminal | Side by side, generated files folded, refreshed as the agent works |
Light, fast and modern
MyGit feels like the IDE you know: JetBrains' commit graph and history tools, VS Code's list of changes and way of staging, ⌘K for commands and ⌘P to go to a file, light and dark. Without the IDE: it's a single native binary drawn on the GPU by MyGo, no webview, no JVM. Memory once a repository of 20,000 commits is open, every process of the app counted (Apple M4):
| App | Memory |
|---|
| MyGit | 109 MB |
| A trimmed IntelliJ-based client | 750 MB |
| VS Code, no extensions | 1,000 MB |
| VS Code, 167 extensions | 1,400 MB |
| IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 | 2,300 MB |
On the same repository, MyGit reads the whole history and lays out its graph in 0.13 s and opens a commit with a 20 MB patch (5,677 files) in 0.24 s.
MyGit reads what git prints and lets git itself make every change, so a repository behaves in MyGit exactly as it does in a terminal. The same app, with the same features, runs on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Features
- Reading changes — generated files (lockfiles, minified,
linguist-generated) fold away; mark files viewed; changed pictures show before and after; comment on lines and copy the comments as Markdown for an agent or a colleague
- Staging — stage, unstage or discard files, changes or selected lines; edit and save the working tree in the diff; filter thousands of changes by path
- Commits — whole messages, changed files and side-by-side diffs with syntax highlighting; a merge against any parent; compare two commits (⌘-click), a branch or the working tree
- History — every branch, tag and remote with its graph, streamed as it loads; search by message, author or hash; filter by branch or path (file history)
- History tools — branch, tag, check out, cherry-pick, revert, reset (soft / mixed / hard), edit a commit's message (F2), squash or delete commits and interactive rebase (reorder, reword, edit, squash, fixup, drop)
- Pull requests — open a GitHub pull request, read and reply to its threads under their lines, resolve them, and submit a review: comment, approve or request changes
- Conflicts — a three-pane merge view as IntelliJ's, merging from the base itself: no conflict markers, the panes aligned and scrolling together, » « ✕ by each change, and a magic wand for conflicts of different words; continue, skip or abort a merge, rebase, cherry-pick or revert
- Stash, blame and remotes — stash with untracked files, blame a file line by line, manage remotes, pull (fast-forward, rebase or merge), preview a push, force with lease
- Sign-ins — when git needs a username, token or passphrase, the window asks
- Workspaces — open a folder of repositories, as an agent's working folder over a few of them, and each shows in the sidebar with its own message, sync and changes, as VS Code's source control has them
- Over SSH — open a repository on another computer (
host:/path/to/repo, Linux, macOS or Windows) with your ssh config and keys; MyGit runs a small helper there, in ~/.mygit, and needs only git on it. On Windows, the distributions of WSL open the same way, without sshd (wsl+Ubuntu:~/repo)
- Everywhere — a window per repository, drag folders in,
mygit . from a terminal, custom title bars, light and dark (the system's or chosen in Settings), English and 简体中文, signed auto-updates
Install
Download the latest release:
On Linux, this installs MyGit for you in ~/.local, without root:
curl -fsSL https://github.com/Binaryify/MyGit/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh
MyGit isn't notarized by Apple yet. If macOS says it can't be opened, move it to Applications and run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/MyGit.app
The Windows installer isn't code-signed yet either. If Windows says it protected your PC, choose More info, then Run anyway.
MyGit needs git on the PATH, and updates itself once installed. Intel Macs aren't supported. All releases are on the releases page.
To build it from source instead, see Development.
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