Show HN: Ghostree is a Ghostty fork with worktree management built in (opens in new tab)

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3 pointsnicoritschel1mo ago5 comments

With agents, I have I found myself using worktrees more and more. First manually, then with conductor.build, then with worktrunk.dev.

I prefer using coding CLIs instead of UI wrappers as the terminal tends to be more performant (depending on the agent you choose) and you get access to new features immediately.

Ghostty is a bit challening to automate today— I considered building a complementary app to Ghostty at first. But since I have been building native mac apps on the side lately (as well as tools for agents, consuming their logs etc) I figured I would just modify Ghostty to have native worktree management.

You can download with homebrew via: brew install sidequery/tap/ghostree

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JoshTriplett1mo ago

What I hoped, following the link from the homepage (not going directly to the post): "ah, something that helps with project management, like git worktrees?"

What I got: "oh, AI, sigh".

It feels like we're going through another round of what happened when "crypto" stopped unambiguously meaning "cryptography" and started being ambiguous with "cryptocurrency".

Can things that are trying to do AI write "AI", please? "AI agent worktree management" would have likely been a more useful description for people who do want it, as well.

nicoritschelOP1mo ago

While worktrunk is oriented at AI, it very much is a nicer abstraction on git worktrees that also happens to be ergonomic for you and I.

You can use Ghostree without AI at all and still get the benefit of worktree management bubbled up to the UI layer.

JoshTriplett1mo ago

The description definitely doesn't make that clear; the README just mentions worktrunk, and worktrunk says "for parallel AI agent workflows".

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Show HN: Ghostree is a Ghostty fork with worktree management built in (opens in new tab)

(github.com)

3 pointsnicoritschel1mo ago5 comments

With agents, I have I found myself using worktrees more and more. First manually, then with conductor.build, then with worktrunk.dev.

I prefer using coding CLIs instead of UI wrappers as the terminal tends to be more performant (depending on the agent you choose) and you get access to new features immediately.

You can download with homebrew via: brew install sidequery/tap/ghostree

5 comments

JoshTriplett1mo ago

What I hoped, following the link from the homepage (not going directly to the post): "ah, something that helps with project management, like git worktrees?"

What I got: "oh, AI, sigh".

It feels like we're going through another round of what happened when "crypto" stopped unambiguously meaning "cryptography" and started being ambiguous with "cryptocurrency".

Can things that are trying to do AI write "AI", please? "AI agent worktree management" would have likely been a more useful description for people who do want it, as well.

nicoritschelOP1mo ago

While worktrunk is oriented at AI, it very much is a nicer abstraction on git worktrees that also happens to be ergonomic for you and I.

You can use Ghostree without AI at all and still get the benefit of worktree management bubbled up to the UI layer.

JoshTriplett1mo ago

The description definitely doesn't make that clear; the README just mentions worktrunk, and worktrunk says "for parallel AI agent workflows".

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