VS Code git extension
Git Graph is a lightweight VS Code extension that renders your repository's branch graph visually.
For quickly understanding what branches exist and how they relate — merges, divergence, where main is — Git Graph's visual view is faster than any git log command.
It visualizes branches but doesn't manage the workflow around them: no Jira link, no branch naming automation, no status sync. You still create and name every branch yourself.
This is really the whole reason Jitly exists — it's not trying to replace Git Graph at what Git Graph is good at. Jitly's job is narrower and more specific: jitly start ABC-123 creates your branch and moves the Jira ticket to In Progress in one shot, jitly done commits, pushes, and updates the status to whatever your team's workflow has, fetched live so it never gets out of sync with how your Jira is actually configured.
And it's not just a CLI anymore — the Jitly VS Code extension does the same job visually: a sidebar with your Jira tickets, one-click start, pause work with a WIP push, done with live status transitions, and a one-click standup generator. Same project config and policies as the CLI, so a team can mix both.
Mainly developers who want a visual map of their repo's branch structure alongside whatever workflow tooling they use. If that's not you, this comparison probably isn't that relevant to your day — Git Graph and Jitly solve different problems most of the time.
pip install jitly) or a VS Code extension. They're rarely a straight either/or choice — most teams comparing them are really deciding what to combine with what they already use.