tratto
All your repositories, one page
Workspaces for your projects, and the repositories on this computer found for you, each with its branch, how far it is from its upstream and how many files changed.
A Git client whose interface is data.
tratto is a desktop Git client for people with many repositories and AI agents. Its themes, texts, settings and layout are files that you, or the copilot, change while it runs. Underneath, a Rust core does the Git work and does not know the interface exists.
- macOS
- Linux
- Windows later
History and diff. The commit graph, the history and a side-by-side diff of the selected commit, on tratto's own repository.
Interface as data
Your interface is a file
Change one line of the settings and the window changes with it. Nothing is rebuilt and nothing restarts.
~/.config/
1 {2 "general.appearance": "dark",3 "general.style": "violet"4 }
Features
What it does today
Version 0.1 is early. Everything below is in the build you can download; what is not built yet says so.
History you can read
Branches and merges drawn as a graph. Commits that exist only on the remote are dimmed, and the ones you have not pushed yet are marked.
A diff side by side
Side by side or unified, with whitespace rules, invisible characters and wrapped lines as settings. Images get a diff of their own.
Settings that tell the truth
Every option comes from one schema and lives in a file. An option that is not built yet is greyed out and says “Soon” instead of pretending.
A core that decides once
Git runs behind tratto-sidecar, a separate Rust program that answers in JSON, one object per line. The interface draws the answer; it never parses Git itself.
crates/
<{"id":0,"ok":{"protocol":28,"git":"<git>","floor":true}}>{"id":1,"method":"open","params":{"path":"<repo>"}}<{"id":1,"ok":{"repo":1,"worktree":"<repo>","git_dir":"<repo>/.git","bare":false,"object_format":"sha1","ref_storage":"files"}}>{"id":10,"method":"count","params":{"repo":1,"cursor":"1.1"}}<{"id":10,"ok":{"commits":4}}
A copilot that can change the app
It runs Claude Code or Codex on your machine, in the project's repository. Because the interface is
data, it can restyle the window or move a setting through tratto's own tools, served only on
127.0.0.1. Anything that deletes waits for your yes.
- style_set
- settings_set
- sidebar_set
- mode_set
- workspace_create
- workspaces_list
- open_project
Install
One line in a terminal
It downloads the latest build, checks its SHA-256 and gets it ready to run. Every file and checksum is on the download page.
Reading the latest release…Built today
Everything else
The rest of what is built, by area.
Branches and remotes
- Create, switch, track and delete branches
- Fetch, pull by merge or rebase, and push
- Add and remove remotes, change their URL
- Create, push and delete tags
- Activity: who pushed what, and where, after a fetch
Changes and commits
- Stage, unstage and commit
- The signature state of each commit
- Merge, see the files in conflict, abort
- Stash: save, apply, pop and drop
- Shrink PNG and SVG files, strip JPEG metadata, and undo it
Repositories
- Workspaces for your projects, and the repositories on this computer found for you
- Clone
- Worktrees: add, lock, unlock, prune and remove
- Submodules: update and sync
- Subtrees: add, pull and push
- Search the whole repository, as text or regular expression
With an AI tool
- A commit message written from the staged changes
- Explain changes, for the staged files or one file
- Claude Code or Codex, run by tratto on your machine
The interface
- Two styles, Violet and Classic, each dark and light
- Zoom from 50 to 200%
- English and Romanian
- Lists and trees from the keyboard, with a visible focus ring
- Text contrast of 4.5:1 or better in all four themes, checked by a test
Not built yet
- Interactive rebase
- Blame and file history
- External diff and merge tools
- Windows
Get started
Install it, then make it yours
Free and open source. Found something wrong? Open an issue.