Git integration

Hive treats git as a workspace signal, surfaced in two places: a Diff view for reviewing uncommitted changes, and a compact status line in Settings.

The Diff view

Switch the canvas to Diff (the Chat | Diff tabs in the chat header) to review every uncommitted change:

• Changes list (left, resizable) — each dirty file with +/− line counts and a kind badge (modified / new / deleted / conflict).
• A real diff editor (right) — the HEAD version against your working tree, syntax-highlighted from the file extension, with unchanged regions folded. Toggle Split | Inline to switch between side-by-side and unified layouts. Binary files are flagged instead of rendered.
• Open in your editor — Hive detects installed editors (VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Sublime — via their CLI shims, or the app bundle on macOS) and the Open in… button launches the selected file in the one you choose. Your last choice becomes the default.

This is the human review surface for agent-made changes — read the diff here, then commit from your own terminal (or have an agent do it, subject to its file-access permission mode).

Status line (Settings → Workspace)

Settings → Workspace shows the workspace root path (which drives the Diff canvas), a one-line git status — the current branch and a changed-file count — and an Open in editor shortcut. That's the extent of the always-visible git readout: there is no ahead/behind tracking, and no persistent status pill in the main window.

Roadmap

A dedicated git pane on the right rail (per-file staging, per-hunk selection, an inline diff viewer) is a possible future addition but is not in the current build. For anything beyond reviewing the diff, use your terminal or drive git through an agent.