Gut
Dev tools
git cli
SHOW HN2023
314points
181comments
#135of 3,109 in 2023
Top 5%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
26 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 32 critical, out of 77 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.
Idea: 13 for, 19 againstDesign: 8 for, 8 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Consistent subcommand naming and safety defaults
From 2 comments
> It provides a consistent naming of command. Very nice. > Gut also prevents you from shooting yourself. Excellent. > Finally, git was made when GitHub and others didn’t existed…
yjftsjthsd-h on HNPretty awesome. Been using git for 10 years and I trully think its CLI is terrible. It's unintuitive, scary, and opaque. I'll give it a go. Pretty cool for a first year student,…
iraldir on HN
Clean website and documentation
From 2 comments
Regardless of the aim of the particular tool, I just want to say that the visual quality of the web page, documentation, and the quality of the content is excellent and I wish…
kmarc on HNWill give this a try. I'm a git noob and am intimidated by git, so I'll take a simple interface any day. Also, beautiful web page design.
replwoacause on HN
Useful for beginners and students
From 2 comments
Maybe it's just morning, or maybe I'm a luddite, or both, but my knee-jerk reaction to this was "why does anyone need this? Just learn git." But then I saw the "explain" command,…
ryukoposting on HNI really like this. I think it takes a beginner to create this too—I know I wouldn't be capable of doing it since I'm just too used to git's terrible UX.
bin_bash on HN
Objections
Opt-out telemetry and unclear data collection
From 2 comments
> It provides a consistent naming of command. Very nice. > Gut also prevents you from shooting yourself. Excellent. > Finally, git was made when GitHub and others didn’t existed…
yjftsjthsd-h on HNhttps://github.com/julien040/gut/blob/main/src/telemetry/telemetry.go In that file we find a URL: https://api-events.gut-cli.dev/v1 <-- If data about users is collected here, is…
1vuio0pswjnm7 on HN
Existing git CLIs or GitHub tools make this unnecessary
From 3 comments
Git alternative command line interfaces just make no sense 1. If you want to do something advanced, it will be a lot easier to find help online using regular/original git…
systems on HNI like that you worked on this but the git cli is already easy to use to be productive. I use the same 5 commands over and over and am happy with that. And Ive met so many people…
prepend on HNIs git a problem that needs solving? It’s not that difficult to learn/lookup commands.
kickette on HN
Secrets could be committed by gut save
From 1 comment
Secrets management seems like a concern. It's really hard for developers to keep credentials and keys out of git. It looks like `gut save` adds anything that not already in…
8organicbits on HN
Name collides with other gut projects
From 1 comment
I'm starting to get confused with all the git clients/wrapper out there I first thought you would be https://github.com/sdslabs/gut/ or maybe https://github.com/tillberg/gut or…
BlackLotus89 on HN
Requests
Add gut stash
From 1 comment
I feel `gut stash` is sorely missing from the list of commands. It's probably my most used command when iterating on a few ideas to see what works best
airstrike on HN
Show underlying git commands being run
From 1 comment
Congratulations on the launch Julien! My history with git and GitHub is indeed chaotic. It took multiple steps and being explained with different approaches for me to finally…
pil0u on HN
Conventional commits support
From 1 comment
Can you add support for conventional commit[0]? It seems to be a more popular choice than gitmoji. [0]: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/
maxloh on HN
Move branch operations under gut branch
From 1 comment
Looks interesting, thanks for writing and posting. I would suggest you go further and package all the branch related operations as subcommands of "gut branch". For instance, "gut…
mhalle on HN
Questions
What does consistent naming mean relative to git
From 1 comment
How do you define "consistent"? Consistent with what? Because at the moment it looks like it's using completely other terminology than the VCS I am used to.
ar9av on HN
How rebases and forced pushes are handled
From 1 comment
I know you're trying to avoid footguns - but how do you handle workflows where up-to-date rebases are required? Several repos I've been in ask for commits to be rebased to the…
nidnogg on HN
Alternatives named
Gitless
From 1 comment
There is a similar project, Gitless: https://gitless.com/ A maintained fork is here: https://github.com/goldstar611/gitless (I use it)
relyks on HN
bit CLI
From 1 comment
This looks very similar to bit CLI - https://github.com/chriswalz/bit
chriswalz on HN
Magit
From 1 comment
Git alternative command line interfaces just make no sense 1. If you want to do something advanced, it will be a lot easier to find help online using regular/original git…
systems on HN
Lazygit and other git wrappers
From 1 comment
First off, congratulations on entering the Computer Science! Second, I am not sure what is a bigger joke here, the project itself and the OP's innocuous and cute self-promotion…
nrvn on HN