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📅 15 October 2026 at 06:30 AM UTC

Show HN: GitVolt, open source fast Git GUI (Tauri/CEF)

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Hi HN! I've been working on this for the past few weeks. I've been using GitKraken for a whole 10 years now, and I've always loved it, but lately I've found it to be a bottleneck, and I haven't seen it improve the features I really care about. So, as many others have done recently, I took a shot at using Opus 5.5 to help me build my dream Git GUI app. I did take massive inspiration from GitKraken (the look and feel is a close match since it's what I feel comfortable with) but everything is built from scratch. I made lots of different UX choices that I think help streamline things. Most importantly, performance was the key thing to get right at the start. I daily-drive Linux so that was first. I went with Tauri to have a really fast Rust core, and after doing performance testing with WebKit

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