I keep one foot in GitLab and the other in GitHub. Both have solid CLIs — glab and gh — but when I need to scan a list of merge requests, check a failing pipeline, read a diff, and approve something, that's four commands, four walls of JSON, four context switches. The web UI works, but it's slow, and I lose my terminal flow every time I reach for it.
I wanted one screen where I could do all of it with a keyboard. So I built gitsmith.
What it does
gitsmith is a terminal UI that wraps glab and gh. Run it inside any git repo and it auto-detects the host from your remote. Run it outside a repo and it asks which forge to use, lists your projects, and drops you in.
There are 11 tabs — Issues, MRs/PRs, Pipelines, Runners, Releases, Tags, Branches, Commits, Todos, Milestones, Members — and every state is listed. Closed issues show up below open ones, so you can reopen something without opening a browser. Protected branches sit above the rest. The tab bar is reorderable, and you can hide tabs you don't use.
