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The Git Tab

Focus a workspace and press Ctrl+Space g, or right-click its sidebar row and choose Open Git Tab. The git tab is a dashboard, not a shell.

Six views

Section titled “Six views”

Switch by clicking the tabs, pressing 1–6, or Tab:

View Shows
Commits the log with graph rails (filter as you type)
Flow the branch topology: trunk, diverging branches, ahead/behind, matched PRs
Branches local branches with ahead/behind, author, age
PRs open pull requests with live CI check status
Issues open issues
Status repo overview: remote, contributors, and the working tree

Navigate lists with j/k or the wheel. r refreshes, and q closes the tab.

For a focused read-only review of staged, worktree, untracked, and conflict layers with local notes, use the FILES dock’s DIFF surface.

Actions

Section titled “Actions”
  • ⏎ on a branch checks it out. On a PR it opens the detail panel where you can read the description and discussion, then approve or check out the PR branch. On wide terminals, the discussion uses the left two-thirds while branches, checks, reviews, labels, mergeability, and stats stay visible in a right-hand information rail. Narrow terminals stack the same content into one scrollable view.
  • ⏎ on an issue opens its description and recent comments in the same reader, with state, labels, assignees, and comment count in the information rail.
  • d shows a diff/log for branches and changed Status files. PR details do not launch merge, ready, or terminal diff commands.
  • In the PR list, c starts gh pr create. Inside PR detail, c or Enter checks out the selected branch, a approves it, o opens it on GitHub, and r refreshes the panel. Use q or Esc to return to the list.
  • m toggles scope between this repo and my work (everything involving you).

GitHub without GitHub

Section titled “GitHub without GitHub”

Local data (commits, branches, status) comes from git directly. PRs, issues, and checks come from the gh CLI. If gh isn’t installed or authenticated, the tab degrades gracefully to a local-git viewer. Run luvus doctor to check.

A workspace’s sidebar row also shows a live ahead/behind badge, and a PR’s checks turning red queues a (silent) notification.