ok so i kept dropping release notes all over the place (here, twitter, the void) and figured i should just have one spot for it.
so yeah FinderGit has a substack now. one email when a new version ships, plus every now and then a deeper dive into a single feature: the problem it solves, the design calls i made, what i got wrong. less changelog, more behind-the-scenes.
Your .git can balloon for a reason no routine cleanup ever fixes: its history pins far more than your working copy needs a stale branch left after a big merge, or a clone that dragged in a much bigger upstream. Git won't drop history a branch or remote still points to, so a normal gc can't touch it.
The last release told you why a repo was heavy. This one lets you fix it.
If you've been following the Shai-Hulud / Miasma supply-chain worm, you know the scary part: a hijacked maintainer account commits an obfuscated dropper, and it runs the moment you open the repo in your editor, let an AI agent load it, or run npm install before you've read a single line of the change. @icflorescu
Three things I kept leaving the app for are now built right in.
Forks that tell you when they're stale
Every GitHub fork in your file browser now shows how many commits it trails its upstream ( 5, 39 ). When one falls behind, Sync Fork brings it current on GitHub and pulls your local clone one click, done. No more checking repo by repo in the browser. And forks that have diverged are flagged honestly, instead of being offered a sync that can't work.
Just shipped FinderGit 0.6.0, the biggest update since the original launch.
Quick reminder for anyone who doesn't know it yet: FinderGit is a native macOS file browser with Git baked in. Every folder shows its branch, clean / dirty / ahead-behind state, and modified file count, live. Click any modified file to see the diff and stage it with one click.
If you've ever stared at the "Commit message " field at 11 pm wondering how to summarize 14 file changes into a coherent line, this one's for you. FinderGit 0.5.0 ships with native AI commit-message generation click AI next to the commit field, get a properly-formatted message back in about a second.
Small but meaningful update: starting today, FinderGit is signed with Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
If you tried earlier versions, you'll remember the awkward first-launch dance: right-click Open, click through the Gatekeeper warning, hope macOS lets you in. That's gone. Just download, drag, and double-click the way any Mac app should behave.
What changes for you:
- Zero-friction first launch Gatekeeper trusts the binary out of the box, even offline
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.
