sourcegit/README.md

SourceGit

Opensource Git GUI client.

Highlights

• Supports Windows/macOS/Linux
• Opensource/Free
• Fast
• English/简体中文/繁體中文
• Built-in light/dark themes
• Customize theme
• Visual commit graph
• Supports SSH access with each remote
• GIT commands with GUI
  • Clone/Fetch/Pull/Push...
  • Merge/Rebase/Reset/Revert/Amend/Cherry-pick...
  • Interactive rebase (Basic)
  • Branches
  • Remotes
  • Tags
  • Stashes
  • Submodules
  • Worktrees
  • Archive
  • Diff
  • Save as patch/apply
  • File histories
  • Blame
  • Revision Diffs
  • Branch Diff
  • Image Diff - Side-By-Side/Swipe/Blend
• GitFlow support
• Git LFS support

Linux only tested on Debian 12 on both X11 & Wayland.

How to Use

To use this tool, you need to install Git(>=2.23.0) first.

You can download the latest stable from Releases or download workflow artifacts from Github Actions to try this app based on latest commits.

This software creates a folder $"{System.Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData}/SourceGit", which is platform-dependent, to store user settings, downloaded avatars and crash logs.

OS	PATH
Windows	C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\SourceGit
Linux	${HOME}/.config/SourceGit
macOS	${HOME}/Library/Application Support/SourceGit

For Windows users:

• MSYS Git is NOT supported. Please use official Git for Windows instead.
• sourcegit_x.y.win-x64.zip may be reported as virus by Windows Defender. I don't know why. I have manually tested the zip to be uploaded using Windows Defender before uploading and no virus was found. If you have installed .NET 8 SDK locally, I suggest you to compile it yourself. And if you have any idea about how to fix this, please open an issue.

For macOS users:

• Download sourcegit_x.y.osx-x64.zip or sourcegit_x.y.osx-arm64.zip from Releases. x64 for Intel and arm64 for Apple Silicon.
• Move SourceGit.app to Applications folder.
• Make sure your mac trusts all software from anywhere. For more information, search spctl --master-disable.
• Make sure git-credential-manager is installed on your mac.
• You may need to run sudo xattr -cr /Applications/SourceGit.app to make sure the software works.

For Linux users:

• xdg-open must be installed to support open native file manager.
• Make sure git-credential-manager is installed on your linux.
• Maybe you need to set environment variable AVALONIA_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS. See https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/wiki/Configuring-X11-per-monitor-DPI.

External Tools

This app supports open repository in external tools listed in the table below.

Tool	Windows	macOS	Linux	Environment Variable
Visual Studio Code	YES	YES	YES	VSCODE_PATH
Visual Studio Code - Insiders	YES	YES	YES	VSCODE_INSIDERS_PATH
VSCodium	YES	YES	YES	VSCODIUM_PATH
JetBrains Fleet	YES	YES	YES	FLEET_PATH
Sublime Text	YES	YES	YES	SUBLIME_TEXT_PATH

• You can set the given environment variable for special tool if it can NOT be found by this app automatically.
• Installing JetBrains Toolbox will help this app to find other JetBrains tools installed on your device.
• On macOS, you may need to use launchctl setenv to make sure the app can read these environment variables.

Screenshots

• Dark Theme

• Light Theme

How to Customize Theme

1. Create a new json file, and provide your favorite colors with follow keys:

Key	Description
Color.Window	Window background color
Color.WindowBorder	Window border color. Only used on Linux.
Color.TitleBar	Title bar background color
Color.ToolBar	Tool bar background color
Color.Popup	Popup panel background color
Color.Contents	Background color used in inputs, data grids, file content viewer, change lists, text diff viewer, etc.
Color.Badge	Badge background color
Color.BadgeFG	Badge foreground color
Color.Conflict	Conflict panel background color
Color.ConflictForeground	Conflict panel foreground color
Color.Border0	Border color used in some controls, like Window, Tab, Toolbar, etc.
Color.Border1	Border color used in inputs, like TextBox, ComboBox, etc.
Color.Border2	Border color used in visual lines, like seperators, Rectange, etc.
Color.FlatButton.Background	Flat button background color, like Cancel, Commit & Push button
Color.FlatButton.BackgroundHovered	Flat button background color when hovered, like Cancel button
Color.FG1	Primary foreground color for all text elements
Color.FG2	Secondary foreground color for all text elements
Color.Diff.EmptyBG	Background color used in empty lines in diff viewer
Color.Diff.AddedBG	Background color used in added lines in diff viewer
Color.Diff.DeletedBG	Background color used in deleted lines in diff viewer
Color.Diff.AddedHighlight	Background color used for changed words in added lines in diff viewer
Color.Diff.DeletedHighlight	Background color used for changed words in deleted lines in diff viewer

For example:

{
  "Color.Window": "#FFFF6059"
}

2. Open Preference -> Appearance, choose the json file you just created in Custom Color Schema.

NOTE: The Custom Color Schema will override the colors with same keys in current active theme.

Contributing

Thanks to all the people who contribute.