GitLive is a real-time collaboration tool that brings teammates' Git changes live into your IDE, enabling preemptive merge conflict detection for development teams.

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🚀 Overview

GitLive integrates your local Git repository with real-time updates from your Git hosting service (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps) and teammates' shared changes, eliminating the need for constant fetching and providing instant visibility into ongoing work.

It solves key problems like merge conflicts that slow down teams, knowledge silos from branching strategies, and lack of awareness of teammates' progress. By showing gutter indicators for changes on other branches and detecting conflicts as you code together, it promotes continuous review and faster merging.

Built for engineering teams who collaborate on codebases, GitLive empowers developers to swarm on features, align early, and deliver faster. The creators built it to inspire teamwork and accelerate development workflows.

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✨ Key Features

• Preemptive merge conflict detection (identifies issues in real-time across branches to prevent complex conflicts later)
• Gutter indicators (shows lines changed by teammates directly in your editor for instant discussions)
• Repository view (see all branches and changes without fetching, compare diffs easily)
• Work-in-progress sharing (share snapshots or go live for collaborative conflict detection)
• Presence indicators and notifications (know who's working where, get push alerts for conflicts)
• Optional: upcoming features like Inline Code Conversations, VS Code Web Support, Monorepo Mode

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🛠 Tech Stack

• IDE Plugins: Kotlin Multiplatform (shared code for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Cursor, Android Studio, etc.)
• Integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps APIs
• Security: End-to-end encryption, local credential storage
• Other: Local Git data syncing, organization-wide multi-repo views

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👥 Who Is This For?

This project is useful for:

• Developers who want to see teammates' live changes and avoid merge hell
• Teams looking for real-time collaboration and faster code reviews in IDEs
• Engineering organizations building multi-repo projects with branching workflows

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📸 Screenshots / Demo

• Live demo: https://git.live
• GitHub: https://github.com/GitLiveApp

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🔥 Project Status

• 🟢 Actively building

Last updated: 2026-03-24

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❓ FAQ

Is this project free?

Freemium (Free plan fully functional but limits conflict detection to 5 recent branches and snapshot sharing; unlimited free for open-source projects. Premium from $9/mo for full features.)

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Is the source code available?

No — proprietary IDE plugins, but open-source projects like firebase-kotlin-sdk available on GitHub.

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Can I contribute?

Provide feedback via issues on GitHub (https://github.com/GitLiveApp/GitLive), join the Early Access Program, or email github@git.live for suggestions.

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📬 Contact & Links

• Website: https://git.live
• GitHub: https://github.com/GitLiveApp
• Twitter/X: https://x.com/git_live
• Email: github@git.live

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