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tig

brew install tig v2.6.1 GPL-2.0-or-later

Terminal UI for browsing and interacting with Git repositories.

Why you might care

tig gives you a fast, ncurses-based way to navigate commit history, diffs, and blame without leaving the terminal—faster and more intuitive than `git log` piping for complex repos. Drop-in replacement workflow: stage/unstage hunks, search commits, and view branches visually.

Categories

version-control terminal-utility

Alternatives

git lazygit gitui
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Runtime dependencies

ncurses pcre2 readline

Build dependencies

pkgconf

Links

Caveats

A sample of the default configuration has been installed to:
  $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/tig/share/tig/examples/tigrc
to override the system-wide default configuration, copy the sample to:
  $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/tigrc

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