GitButler
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I'm using these options https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git and I'm happy with it”
“I like their vision, though”
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“https://docs.gitbutler.com/why-gitbutler”
“GitButler handles all of this pretty automatically”
“Maybe latest versions of GitButler”
Caveats and dissent
“I absolutely don't want this functionality to exist”
“This GitButler thing fails all my tests for a thing that's serious about replacing git”
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“It hasn't been organically popular here”
“Disappointed, I must say.”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“built a benchmark comparing git, jj and gitbutler in agentic context”
“GitButler's source code is available, so we're not asking you to trust us much at all.”
“I tried to get SSH commit signing working properly in GitButler”
“We will remove the hook constraint as soon as we complete this”
“GitButler came about many years ago because I have been using Git”
“The app has a built-in mechanism for going back in time (an operations log)”
Threads where it came up
- We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git 10 mentions
- Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto 3 mentions
- Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents 2 mentions
- A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development 2 mentions
- Superlogical – Mitchell Hashimoto 1 mention
- How Version Control Will Evolve for the Agent Boom 1 mention
Data: gitbutler.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 15
“some cliff oss license like gitbutler does”
“I'm using these options https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git and I'm happy with it”
“I absolutely don't want this functionality to exist”
“This GitButler thing fails all my tests for a thing that's serious about replacing git”
“it's bit hard for me to decipher the JTBD of gitbutler”
“It hasn't been organically popular here”
“I like their vision, though”
“https://docs.gitbutler.com/why-gitbutler”
“I can't see any significant difference between their "Operations Log"”
“Disappointed, I must say.”
“Scott is a GitHub cofounder, author of Pro Git, and now runs GitButler.”
“GitButler handles all of this pretty automatically”
“Also found https://github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler”
“Maybe latest versions of GitButler”
“Also, watching the video of git butler, it seems like a jj UI could take a lot of inspiration.”