Community might be interested in Gitember - a desktop Git application written in Java.

Why build a Git gui client in Java?

This is the obvious question. For me, the answer is simple: a lot of the infrastructure you need is already in the Java ecosystem. You don't need to build everything from scratch or rely on a collection of external tools. Gitember can use:

• JGit for Git operations and repository access

• Lucene for full-text indexing and search

• Apache Tika for extracting text from many document formats

• Swing for the desktop UI. FlatLaf for a modern look and feel

• Java's filesystem and concurrency APIs for local repository operations and background processing

• Ollama as a local AI service when AI features are enabled

This makes it possible to build a fairly complete Git desktop environment in one application for multiple platforms. Including installer

Gitember covers everyday Git

Gitember covers the day-to-day Git workflow in one application:

• Repository & remote operations — clone/init, fetch, pull, push, remotes and Git LFS.

• Changes & branches — stage/unstage, commit/amend/undo, branch management, merge, rebase and interactive rebase.

• History & collaboration — commit history, changed files, version/branch comparison, reflog, Git notes, worktrees and submodules.

• Conflict resolution & security — three-way merge, stash management, commit signing and signature validation.

Gitember goes beyond the traditional Git client

• Workspace - allows several independent repositories to be managed together. Looks like submodules, but really not

• Search in Git history - search not only commit messages and metadata, but also the content of files in repository history.

• Repository statistics

• Side-by-side file and folder diff - may be used as separate tools

• AI Features - locally (without Cloud): detection of leaked secrets , descriptions of branch differences , commit message generation

Looking for testers and contributors

For Java developers interested in desktop software, Git tools, or Swing in a real-world application, the source code is available here -

Project website -

This is a benchmark report of my ChaosTree, comparing all the maps against Java’s built-in maps and major third-party libraries.

There are few discovery throughout the benchmark. The benchmark scales from 10K to 1M entries.

The mixed benchmark covers different GET / PUT / REMOVE workloads:

• [50,25,25]

• [20,40,40]

• [80,10,10]

• [70,30,0]

• [50,50,0]

• [30,70,0]

If you find any issue, wrong data, or anything that needs further scrutiny, you are requested to open an issue.

If you know any other third-party library, drop it in the comments. I will try to benchmark that as well.

v2.0.2 Latest

• Fixed SortedMap<> constructors always setting the comparator to null.

• Fixed missing comparator propagation in Spliterator.

• Resolved slow iteration in binary SubSet / SubMap.

• Resolved missing Serializable annotations.

• No major changes

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