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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.

Switch by clicking the tabs, pressing 16, or Tab:

ViewShows
Commitsthe log with graph rails (filter as you type)
Flowthe branch topology: trunk, diverging branches, ahead/behind, matched PRs
Brancheslocal branches with ahead/behind, author, age
PRsopen pull requests with live CI check status
Issuesopen issues
Statusrepo 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.

  • on a branch checks it out. On a PR it opens the detail panel (checks, reviews, mergeability) where you can approve, merge, or check out the PR branch.
  • d shows a diff/log for the selection in your terminal pane.
  • o opens the selection on GitHub, and c starts gh pr create.
  • m toggles scope between this repo and my work (everything involving you).

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 artu 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.