What is git-branch-visualizer?

Branch Visualizer is a macOS menu bar app for working with git repositories without opening a full code editor. Instead of living in the Dock as a regular application window, it sits quietly in the menu bar and opens a small popover, either by clicking its icon or pressing a keyboard shortcut, showing your branches, worktrees, commit history, and any uncommitted changes for whichever repository you have added. The main view lets you filter branches into current, local, and remote groups, see how far ahead or behind each one is, and click a branch to focus a colored commit graph that shows merges and forks as connected lines. Clicking any commit expands its full message, author, date, and the files it changed, along with a diff for each file. If a repository has linked worktrees, you can switch to a separate worktree view that shows which ones are dirty, locked, or ready to be cleaned up, and open any of them directly in your configured editor or terminal. Uncommitted changes appear above the graph as their own panel, where you can stage, unstage, or discard files with inline diffs and confirmation prompts for anything destructive. The app works by calling your system's installed git directly, so your existing SSH keys and credential setup carry over without extra configuration, and it automatically refreshes whenever something changes in the repository's git folder. It is built with Tauri, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind, and currently only supports macOS, though the author notes the codebase is structured with a future Windows and Linux port in mind. The easiest way to install it is through Homebrew, which compiles the app locally on your machine so there is no code signing requirement, and it can also be built from source using Rust and the Bun JavaScript toolchain.