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CGIT 1.3 Web Frontend For Git Released After Six Years

Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 24 February 2026 at 05:55 AM EST. 6 Comments
Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard and Linux cryptography fame has taken a break from that to release a new version of CGIT, the lightweight web interface for Git repositories. CGIT 1.3 is the first new release in six years and comes with a lot of changes.

For those not needing to manage pull requests or other features from your Git web interface but simply needing a web-based viewer for reading Git repositories, CGIT remains one of the best options around. CGIT is lightweight, doesn't depend upon JavaScript and is very efficient in being written in C, and also powers the likes of git.kernel.org.

With CGIT 1.3 there are many bug fixes, updating against the latest Git 2.53 functionality, updates to the CSS styling for CGIT, and also the very first (optional) JavaScript based functionality. JavaScript is being used for CGIT's dynamic aging feature. The JavaScript feature is to dynamically update the "ages" of GIt commits and the like on client side. So not too scary and no fundamental loss if blocking JavaScript in your browser.

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More details on CGIT 1.3 can be found via the mailing list release announcement.

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