FinderGit 0.4.0 — Native macOS Git browser, now with smarter layout 🚀
Hey hunters! 👋
FinderGit is the macOS-native file browser that knows about Git. Think Finder, but every folder shows you its branch, sync status, and pending changes — without ever opening a terminal or a heavyweight Git client.
I've been shipping updates every couple of weeks, and v0.4.0 is the one where the app starts behaving like a real macOS citizen on tight screens.
What's new
🪟 Switchable detail layout — like Apple Mail
Toggle between detail-on-the-right and detail-at-the-bottom with a single click, ⌥⌘D, or the View menu. Auto-collapses to bottom when the window or detail pane gets too narrow to be readable. Your drill-down survives the swap.
📁 Hidden files visible by default + ⌘⇧.
Git tracks dotfiles as first-class citizens, so why hide them? .gitignore, .env, .github/ now show up out of the box, rendered at 50% opacity exactly like Finder. Toggle live with ⌘⇧. — same shortcut you already know.
📐 Compact tree on narrow windows
13" MacBook Air? Split-screen? The file tree now uses denser rows when space is tight, so you see more repos and files at once without shrinking the font.
✨ Responsive detail panels
Single-file detail and DiffView no longer fold their labels into vertically-rotated text on narrow panels. Action buttons (Fetch / Pull / Push) get a Mail-style icon-with-label-below treatment in compact mode.
🐛 Killed a stealth crash
Squashed a latent SwiftUI lazy-load race in the file tree that had been quietly waiting for the right render path to trigger it. Free bug fix for everyone.
Why FinderGit?
- Native — written in Swift / SwiftUI, no Electron, no web view, no 200MB install
- macOS 15+ — uses @Observable, structured concurrency, Sparkle for auto-updates
- Free & lightweight — 10MB DMG, signed with Personal Team (right-click → Open on first launch)
- Stays out of your way — no daemon, no telemetry, no account
Built with one goal: make "is this folder a Git repo? is it dirty? what branch?" answerable at a glance, in the place you already navigate files.
Download
🔗 https://github.com/gfazioli/findergit-website/releases/tag/v0.4.0
Auto-update users: Sparkle picks it up automatically on next check.
🙏Feedback, bug reports, feature requests — would love to hear what's missing. The roadmap so far has been driven entirely by what early users have asked for, and that's the way I want to keep it.
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