Git Navigator
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All of Git's power.
None of the learning curve.

Git Navigator is a local-first visual Git client that just works. Drag to rebase, click to resolve conflicts, manage worktrees, stash, reflog. No commands to memorize, no clutter to wade through.

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Git Navigator desktop application

No commands to memorize

Drag, click, and drop your way through rebases, merges, and stacks. The hard parts of Git become things you can see.

Local-first & private

Everything runs on your machine against your real repo. No account required, and your code never leaves your computer.

Lives where you work

Run it as a fast standalone desktop app, or right inside VS Code, Cursor, and other compatible editors.

Features

Everything you do in Git — made obvious.

Each of these is a thing people normally dread in the terminal. Here, you just watch it happen.

Commit graph

A history you can actually read

Branches, tags, favorites, and the full history laid out in a clean, readable graph — with push/sync indicators so you always know what's published.

Rebase

Rebase by dragging

Reorder commits or move a whole stack with your mouse. The thing that scares people out of the CLI becomes simple drag-and-drop.

AI commits

Let AI handle the busywork

Plan split commits and draft clear commit messages with your editor's language model. You review and tweak — it does the typing.

Conflicts

Conflicts, resolved in clicks

Block-level actions show exactly what changed on each side. Pick one, take both, or edit — no hunting for conflict markers in your files.

Files

Browse, diff, and edit in one place

A worktree-aware file tree with path and content search, file, diff, conflict, and blame views, plus safe in-app editing with stale-write protection.

Git Navigator files explorer with diff view
Stacks & worktrees

Stacks and worktrees, without the headache

Push stacked branches safely with a clear preview of what's going where, and switch active worktrees without ever leaving the graph.

Two ways to use it

Wherever you already work.

Git Navigator Desktop

A fast standalone app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Multi-window for working across repos, a clone flow, SSH key management, and commit signing — the works.

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Editor extension

The same Git Navigator, right inside VS Code, Cursor, and other compatible IDEs. Stay in your editor and keep your flow — no context-switching to a separate app.

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What's new

0.3.6 · 2026-06-16

  • Add a rendered Preview view to the Files explorer for Markdown and HTML files, defaulting documents to Preview
  • Render HTML previews in a sandboxed iframe with scripts disabled by default and an opt-in, isolated "Enable scripts" toggle
  • Resolve repo-relative assets in the preview: Markdown images and HTML stylesheets/images/scripts are inlined as data URIs from the worktree
  • Turn the Files explorer branch label into a real worktree selector that drives the tree and stays in sync with the backend's active worktree
  • Add an "Open in terminal" action to worktree rows
  • Prompt to restart after an app update finishes installing, with a "Restart now" action in the settings panel and app bar, and short-circuit further update checks while a restart is pending
  • Sign the bundled `git` Mach-O binaries during macOS bundling so Developer ID builds pass Gatekeeper
  • Add a Mac App Store build pipeline (entitlements, Info.plist, provisioning profile, Tauri overrides, `tauri:build-appstore:mac` script) gated behind the `mac-app-store` Cargo feature, which omits the in-app auto-updater
  • Add a Microsoft Store MSIX build pipeline behind a `store-distribution` Cargo feature; both store flavors share a `store-managed-updates` path that hides the in-app updater and shows a store-managed message in its place
  • Add a Linux Tauri bundle configuration
  • Render images, GFM tables, and task lists in Markdown (commit bodies and the file Preview), with syntax-highlighted fenced code blocks in the desktop app
  • Show a push/sync indicator on local branch badges in the graph (ahead/behind counts, an in-sync check, or an "unpublished" glyph) so a branch sharing a commit with its remote still reveals whether it has been pushed
  • Cmd/Ctrl-click a commit's file row to open the file in the Files explorer instead of the diff view
  • Make file-content search results clickable and jump to the matched line in the desktop app
  • Sync the local default branch after a pull-rebase onto origin in the desktop app
  • Eliminate git-status "lock shock" and stale background-worktree UI when concurrent git operations briefly hold the index lock
  • Allow `GIT_EDITOR` to flow through to `continueRebase` in the VS Code extension so rebase continuations no longer break the editor environment
  • Make the desktop discard action delete staged/new files instead of returning an error

0.3.5 · 2026-06-04

  • Add a Files explorer activity with worktree groups, file status badges, and file, diff, conflict, and blame views
  • Add file search with automatic folder expansion for matching paths and git-grep content search
  • Add CodeMirror-powered file viewing and editing with optimistic concurrency checks
  • Replace inline file editing with a focused modal edit overlay
  • Reveal files in the Files activity with Cmd/Ctrl-click from uncommitted changes
  • Add multi-window support for working across multiple repositories
  • Add an empty-state clone flow for opening a repository from a fresh desktop window
  • Surface backend command failures through in-app toasts and show loading overlays during long-running Git operations
  • Add Git identity settings for viewing and editing `user.name`, `user.email`, and `remote.origin.url`
  • Add SSH key management in Settings
  • Add in-app SSH commit signing setup for both the desktop app and editor extension
  • Render commit bodies as Markdown in the info sidebar
  • Show force-delete confirmation when branch deletion fails
  • Set upstream automatically when pushing a branch without tracking
  • Forward file explorer responses correctly for secondary worktrees
  • Make rebase and cherry-pick continue work in the desktop app
  • Repair desktop commit split and stacked-branch rebase flows
  • Make drag-and-drop rebase work more reliably with a wider drop zone
  • Cascade stack-mode amend onto descendant branches in the desktop app
  • Silence background forge metadata refresh failures in the desktop app
  • Fix file explorer scroll, resize, submodule, syntax highlighting, and preview handling issues

0.3.4 · 2026-04-29

  • Tag management UI with remote state tracking
  • Open on Remote action for local branches
  • Fast-forward local main to origin/main after fetchAndRebase
  • Show push failure dialog for `commitAndPush`
  • Follow git semantics for branch safety check
  • Mark worktree branches with identical tips as safe to delete
  • Show push bar for new branches even when commits exist on remote
  • Use origin/main as stack base when ahead of local main

0.3.3 · 2026-04-15

  • Make stash and reflog rows fully clickable in the history overlays
  • Keep branch and tag dropdown menus accessible when commit details are expanded
  • Bundle Git with app builds and switch the desktop app to use the bundled Git backend instead of libgit2
  • Add a repository picker button in the app bar title area
  • Split bundled Git config into per-platform files for macOS and Windows releases
  • Prevent structured slogx logging from starting in production builds
  • Skip duplicate desktop poll refreshes after command-triggered refreshes

0.3.2 · 2026-04-08

  • Restore bundled webview assets in published VS Code packages

0.3.1 · 2026-04-08

  • Split the shared webview/runtime so the VS Code extension and desktop app can ship side by side
  • Normalize filesystem and worktree path handling more reliably across hosts
  • Initial release of Git Navigator Desktop for macOS and Windows
  • Expandable stash entries with per-file diff viewing in the stash overlay
  • Expandable reflog entries with commit metadata and diff viewing
  • Worktree-scoped history view in the stash overlay
  • Forge auth cards and GitHub device flow status in Settings
  • Better worktree status refresh behavior and path matching in VS Code
  • Overlay scrolling and keyboard handling in the shared webview shell
  • Split-commit routing and worktree panel scrolling in shared overlay layouts
  • Release cleanup and test hardening around the shared webview/runtime split

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