5 alternatives to git

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These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 2,102 licence-cleared components from git/git itself.

The alternatives in detail

• posva/catimg
  🦦 Insanely fast image printing in your terminal
  score 5.9/10 · MIT permissive · 1,587 stars · 9 components · search them
• p-gen/smenu
  smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use.
  score 5.5/10 · MPL-2.0 weak-copyleft · 2,501 stars · 25 components · search them
• orf/gping
  Ping, but with a graph
  score 7.3/10 · MIT permissive · 12,726 stars · 13 components · search them
• hoangsonww/reprovm-virtual-machine
  ⚙️ A lightweight C-based task VM with content-addressed storage, automatic incremental caching, and terminal-visible dependency graphs; parallel-capable, polyglot (Go, Rust, Python, Node.js, Ruby, assembly) workflow engi
  score 4.3/10 · MIT permissive · 11 stars · 49 components · search them
• telodendria/telodendria
  Telodendria is an open source Matrix homeserver implementation written from scratch in ANSI C and designed to be lightweight and simple, yet functional. This is the official read-only mirror of the upstream source code.
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 42 stars · 59 components · search them

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