Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order> Fast and intuitive keyboard only control I'm sure the author had nice intentions, but the very first thing i tried when i installed this (it is from openSUSE's repository so it might not be the latest version) was to resize the xterm window as it was too small and then tried to click and drag the edge of the file tree window hoping to make it smaller as i wanted most of the visible area to be the diff…
Any tig users here ? I’m happy with it since then, looks like the feature set is pretty similar
Interesting. I use solely tig which makes staging hunks/ stashing a breeze. If this tool is even faster and I can keep my tig muscle memory and use something like tig . or tig —all then I might get sold on this new tool
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 607
- Total comments
- 196
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-06-15 | GitUI: Fast terminal-UI for Git written in rust | ingve | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-07-06 | Show HN: GitUI v0.8 – fast terminal client for Git | extrawurst | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-12-22 | Terminal-UI for Git written in Rust | ducktective | 4 | 1 |
| 2021-02-24 | Gitui: A terminal front-end for Git (in Rust) | ducktective | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-04-10 | GitUI: A terminal user interface for Git | ducktective | 5 | 0 |
| 2022-09-16 | GitUI: Terminal UI for GitFirst breakout | stillicide | 187 | 90 |
| 2024-01-07 | GitUIBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | jethronethro | 405 | 105 |