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            "tagline": "Fast terminal UI for Git that is free and open source",
            "summary": "GitUI is an MIT-licensed terminal user interface for Git, written in Rust. It gives a graphical-style Git workflow inside a terminal, is packaged for many Linux distributions, and its build instructions cover Windows and macOS too.",
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                "Benchmarks are the author's own"
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            "overview": "Lazygit is a terminal user interface that puts Git commands behind panels and keyboard shortcuts. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and it is installed through package managers such as Homebrew, Scoop, Chocolatey and Winget. Its features include staging individual hunks or lines, interactive rebase, cherry-picking, bisect and a commit graph.\n\nLazygit suits developers who already work in the terminal and want a visual layer over Git without a desktop app. It is free and open source under the MIT license, and it has no graphical window of its own. People who prefer a full desktop client should compare it with GitKraken or Sublime Merge."
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