workbench
An open-source desktop Git client for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Visual history, code reviews, conflict resolution, worktrees, and an interactive terminal
What XERJ indexed
Snapshot
The whole repository at commit 089bbacc11 (2026-10-26). main is 19 commits ahead.
Selected work
“restore AI assistant settings layout”. 3 files, 335 lines in src/renderer, tests.
Licence
The repository
LICENSE file checked at the pinned commit; the author agreed to inclusion.
The XERJ corpus
The author agreed by email on 2026-10-30. Same terms as the repository. Answers name the repo, the commit and the file:line.
selected for the XERJ Corpus Hublicence clearedsuggested use: adapt with attribution
gitgit-guiversion-controlcode-reviewcross-platformdesktop-applicationgit-clientworktrees
Example questions
- How does workbench implement git?
- Where does workbench handle “restore AI assistant settings layout”?
- What does src/renderer do in workbench?
Inside the indexed corpus
- 292 files, 3.2 MB in total, about 11.2 KB per file.
- The selected commit changed 3 of those files (1.0%).
- Languages by size: TypeScript 95.7%, JavaScript 2.5%, CSS 1.4%, Shell 0.3%, HTML 0%.
- On GitHub since 2026-10-19, last push 2026-10-29, 58 commits on main.
- The pin is 19 commits behind main; the corpus answers from the pinned code, not the newest.
Licence on GitHub and in the corpus
GitHub reported MIT for GitWorkbench/workbench on 2026-10-31, and the LICENSE file at commit 089bbacc11 was reviewed as MIT. They match, so answers from this corpus carry the same terms as the live repository.
Contributors
Naowas Morshed Eimon (@naowas) has 1 selected repository on the hub.
Using XERJ with workbench
- Ask questions about a GitHub repo without cloning it
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The prompt
Paste it into your AI agent. It clones GitWorkbench/workbench at the pinned commit and indexes it on your machine.
Search the GitHub repository GitWorkbench/workbench with XERJ (https://hub.xerj.org/corpus/gitworkbench--workbench). Run these in a shell, in order, and check each result before the next: 1. xerj --help (success: it prints usage). If xerj is missing: curl -fsSL https://xerj.org/get | sh 2. git clone https://github.com/GitWorkbench/workbench workbench && git -C workbench checkout 089bbacc1136359f44f2f2bc9a70f12779365ee0 3. Start a local node and leave it running: xerj --insecure --data-dir ./xerj-data 4. xerj autoindex ./workbench --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 --prefix workbench --progress plain 5. xerj autoindex map --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 Then answer my question from the indexed files and cite the ax_path of every hit. Query syntax: https://xerj.org/llms.txt Licence: MIT. Keep the copyright notice and credit the authors.
Related
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Stats: GitHub API, fetched 2026-10-31. Snapshot: the git tree at the pinned commit. Selected work and consent: the XERJ registry.