// version control, reconsidered

A featherweight space
for your code.

Grove is a version control system that asks very little. Just projects, saves, and a binary roughly the size of its icon.

Download Grove View Source — dropping Tuesday

grove — bash

$grove create
  Enter new project name (blank to return):
 
$grove save
  Snapshot saved.
 
$grove restore
  --- Restore Snapshot · chapter_02 ---
  1. final_03_polished_leakfixed8
Mar 05 2026 · 9:57PM
 
# we've all been there
 
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binary size

608^kb

smaller than most favicons

runtime deps

none. zero. zilch.

platforms

3^os

linux · mac · windows

what it does

01 —

Instant Install

Download the installer, double-click it. Done.

02 —

Snapshots

Save your work with a single command. Browse history, restore saves, keep moving.

03 —

Your Grove

Browse neatly assorted backups in your file explorer, directly. Do what you want with them.

04 —

Written in Rust

Fast, safe, and tiny. No garbage collector, no runtime — just a binary.

05 —

For Solo Coders

Not built for enterprise CI pipelines. Built for one person who wants to ship without learning the entire culture of Git.

06 —

Part of DDE

Grove is the first piece of the Disintegrated Development Environment — a tiny suite for CLI-first developers.

get it

$curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/avatardeejay/grove/main/install.sh | sh

$irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/avatardeejay/grove/main/install.ps1 | iex

grove 0.1.0

or download the binary directly from the github releases page.