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What is gitbutler?

A Git client designed for concurrent feature work using virtual branches.

What does gitbutler do?

GitButler reinvents version control workflows by allowing developers to work on multiple disparate tasks simultaneously without constantly stashing or switching branches. It monitors the working directory and intelligently groups uncommitted changes into separate 'virtual branches' based on file context or manual selection. When ready, developers can push these virtual branches individually to remote servers as standard Git branches. This fundamentally eliminates the friction of managing multiple work-in-progress states. It heavily utilizes Rust for performance and integrates deeply with standard Git repositories without requiring structural changes.

Who is gitbutler for?

GitButler is designed for professional software engineers looking to optimize their daily Git workflows. It is especially useful for developers managing high-velocity, multi-tasking environments.

How do I get started with gitbutler?

Download the app from gitbutler.com

How popular is gitbutler on GitHub?

gitbutlerapp/gitbutler has 21,763 stars and 1,027 forks on GitHub, and gained 66 stars in the last 7 days.

What license does gitbutler use?

gitbutlerapp/gitbutler is released under the Other license.

• Widely adopted

  21,763 stars

• Very active

  13,605 commits in 52 weeks

• Community-driven

  ~164 contributors

• Well documented

  High community health score

• Continuous integration

  Automated checks passing

GitButler reinvents version control workflows by allowing developers to work on multiple disparate tasks simultaneously without constantly stashing or switching branches. It monitors the working directory and intelligently groups uncommitted changes into separate 'virtual branches' based on file context or manual selection. When ready, developers can push these virtual branches individually to remote servers as standard Git branches. This fundamentally eliminates the friction of managing multiple work-in-progress states. It heavily utilizes Rust for performance and integrates deeply with standard Git repositories without requiring structural changes.

GitButler is designed for professional software engineers looking to optimize their daily Git workflows. It is especially useful for developers managing high-velocity, multi-tasking environments.

• Virtual Branching: Groups file changes into distinct, manageable tracks without altering the underlying Git branch state.
• Simultaneous Workflows: Allows seamless switching between unrelated features without the need to stash or commit half-finished work.
• Intelligent Chunking: Automatically suggests grouping file modifications based on related context, paths, or semantics.
• Native Integration: Pushes virtual branches directly to GitHub or GitLab, appearing as standard branches for review.
• Visual Commit Management: Simplifies complex operations like squashing, splitting, and rewriting commit history visually before pushing.

Getting started: Download the app from gitbutler.com

1. release/0.22.3release/0.22.3Aug 29, 2026

   ## Fixes - Fixes an incorrect GitHub or GitLab authentication error when syncing a project without a connected forge integration - Fixes GitHub pull request publishing failures showing "422 Unprocessable Entity" instead of GitHub's explanation of what needs fixing - Fixes a 0.22.2 regression were in some cases the app uses a fallback committer value instead of the configured Git identity **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler/compare/release/0.22.2...release/0.22.3 ## Downloads Download bins from https://gitbutler.com/

2. release/0.22.2release/0.22.2Aug 28, 2026

   ## Changes - Updating the workspace now fast-forwards a local target branch like `main` after its remote branch advances ## Fixes - GitHub repositories with 100 or more open pull requests now refresh correctly as pull request activity changes - GitLab: An open merge request with no head commit no longer breaks merge request loading - Edit mode no longer crashes on conflicts in non-UTF-8 files or treats those conflicts as resolved - Workspace syncs no longer fail when a remote the workspace does not use cannot be fetched - Uncommitted changes now load correctly when staged and unstaged changes overlap - Slow fetch, push, and clone operations are no longer cancelled after two minutes - Pull request and merge request information stays visible when GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket credentials are missing or a refresh fails due to a network error - Onboarding no longer gets stuck when no Git identity is configured - Restoring operation history now keeps the full stack when duplicate branch names exist across stacks - Unapplying a stack no longer fails when its branch names also exist in another stack - Updating a branch from upstream no longer fails with "BUG: Add edge introd

3. release/0.22.1release/0.22.1Aug 24, 2026

   ## Changes - macOS: Holding `⌘` while selecting a project now shows that it will open in a new window - Adds "Create PR" and "Land" to the branch context menu, so both actions are available regardless of the "Land branches directly" setting - When updates from the target branch conflict with uncommitted work, GitButler now keeps both versions, shows the files as conflicted, and lets you mark them as resolved ## Fixes - Fixes unexpected vertical scrolling of the workspace while dragging branches between lanes - Fixes tracked files being deleted in some workspaces after landing a branch - Fixes failed GitHub operations showing a generic response-decoding error instead of GitHub's actual error message - Fixes rebase operations unexpectedly moving tags - Fixes conflicted commits losing their conflict state when reworded - Fixes stale uncommitted files being shown after commits made by the CLI or another process - Fixes clean commits being incorrectly treated as conflicted - Fixes commit and merge request links using the wrong URL for self-hosted forges reached over SSH on a non-standard port - Fixes workspace updates failing after a branch in a stack was squash-merge

4. release/0.22.0release/0.22.0Jul 30, 2026

   ## Changes Native GitHub Stacked PR Support is available in gitbutler 🥞🎉 - GitButler now automatically uses GitHub's native stacked pull requests for enrolled repositories, falling back to description footers otherwise - You can now choose per project whether GitButler adds stack metadata to pull and merge request descriptions - Cherry-picking now creates conflicted commits when a pick conflicts instead of blocking it ## CLI Breaking changes: This release overhauls the `commit`, `amend`, `squash`, `discard` and `move`. The commands `rub`, `stage` and `unstage` have been removed. For agentic use its important to update the skill (`but skill check --update`) - The CLI no longer reads change assignments from the desktop app. All worktree changes are treated as uncommitted; `but stage`, `but unstage`, and `but commit --only` have been removed - `but commit` now takes sources positionally and uses `-b/--branch` for the target branch and `--above` or `--below` for stacking - `but squash` still takes sources positionally but now uses `-t/--target` for the target. It can squash all types of sources into commits, branches, and the uncommitted area. - `but amend` and `but u

5. release/0.21.2release/0.21.2Jul 22, 2026

   ## What's Changed - Fixes a 0.21.1 regression where a pull request cache left by an older version could break the workspace after upgrading - Fixes an issue where updating a branch from upstream could fail - Bitbucket: Fixes an issue where build status checks could fail to load in some cases - Fixes an issue where a "part 1 of 1 in a stack" footer could be added to pull requests that aren't part of a stack **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler/compare/release/0.21.1...release/0.21.2 ## Downloads Download bins from https://gitbutler.com/

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