wtf is self-hosted-git-client?

Self-hosted Git Client is a free, open source desktop Git client that runs entirely on your own machine, with no account, telemetry, or cloud dependency. It talks to your remotes with your own git installation and SSH keys, and even resolves author avatars locally without calling any third party service, so your repositories never leave your computer. The interface centers on a colored commit graph with lanes for every branch, merge edges, and commits grouped by day, the current branch is highlighted and unpushed commits are marked. Branch labels are consolidated to avoid duplicates, and double clicking one checks it out. Staging happens through dedicated staged and unstaged panels with per file stage, unstage, and discard, plus amending commits and editing the last commit message inline. Merge conflicts from a merge, rebase, cherry pick, or revert open a three pane visual editor showing your version and the incoming version on top with the live result below, letting you resolve conflicts line by line, with minimaps and synchronized scrolling, conflicted files cannot be staged until resolved. History can be rewritten through an interactive rebase planner supporting reorder, squash, fixup, and drop, and an undo feature reverses the last branch action using the reflog as a soft reset. The app supports push, pull, and fetch with ahead and behind counters, auto fetches in the background, and offers a safe force push with lease after a rewrite is rejected. A global search reaches across branches, tags, commit messages, authors, hashes, and file names, and the same shortcut searches inside an open diff. Other features include a full page diff viewer with inline or side by side modes and a minimap, branch and tag management, stash creation with editable messages, multiple remotes, opening a commit or branch on your git host, session restoring across repository tabs, full keyboard navigation, an SSH key manager for generating ed25519 or RSA keys, light and dark themes, and update notifications. The app is built with Electron, TypeScript, and Vite, needs git in your system PATH plus ssh-keygen for the SSH key manager, and building from source additionally requires Node.js 18 or later. Prebuilt installers exist for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and the app checks for new releases itself. It is released under the MIT license, and the README notes the visual identity, including name, colors, and the graph palette, can be rebranded from a single file.