rootle

browse remote source-control systems from your terminal. clone nothing.

github in-tree any forge via stdio providers rust MIT

$ curl -fsSL https://rootle.dev/install.sh | sh

also: cargo install rootle · mise use github:rootledev/rootle · release tarballs · status: alpha

GitHub ↗

demo — pick a palette

rootle · press ? for keybindings

rootle demo: searching, browsing miller columns, grep, yanking a URL

The demo re-renders in your pick — the same eleven palettes :settings lists in the app. First launch opens repo search; rootle owner/repo jumps straight into a repo.

what it does

browse

Three miller columns — orgs → repos → trees — with a live syntax-highlighted preview pane. No local clone.

find & grep␣ f␣ g

Full-screen, Zed-style results: match chips, folded regions, per-file counts. Scope to a repo or search globally.

open & yank↵␣ y

Any file opens read-only in your editor. Yank the browser URL of anything you're looking at.

clonev:clone

Mark repos, run the wizard. Org selections fan out; destinations land at <dest>/<org>/<repo>.

configure:settings

In-app settings write config.toml and hot-reload themes. The ? popup lists every keybinding.

providers

GitHub ships in-tree. Anything else wraps in as a stdio child speaking NDJSON-RPC — the protocol is four methods; the scaffolding skill wraps your backend with you.

compare

	rootle	github.com	gh cli	clone + editor
browse without cloning	✓	✓	api only	·
modal, keyboard-first TUI	✓	·	·	·
syntax-highlighted preview	✓	✓	·	✓
full-text grep in the terminal	✓	·	gh search code	✓
forges beyond GitHub	stdio providers	·	GHES only	✓
single static binary	✓	n/a	✓	n/a

try it

$ curl -fsSL https://rootle.dev/install.sh | sh

auth is zero-friction: gh auth login or ROOTLE_TOKEN if already set up — everything else works anonymously. Every knob in settings.