Pinstripe

About

Pinstripe restores your full working context, panes, scrollback, running processes and directory state, when you come back to a project. Sessions survive reboots and sync across machines.

Where Pinstripe fits

Pinstripe sits in the devops corner of most stacks, and is aimed at teams who have outgrown doing this part by hand. It runs on macOS and Linux, and is free to use.

The source is public, so the parts you depend on can be read, forked and audited rather than taken on trust.

What you get on day one

Session state survives reboots, and scrollback search across all panes, config as a single readable file, sub-10ms render on large buffers. The setup is deliberately small: the maker's argument is that a tool you have to schedule a migration for is a tool you will not adopt.

Whether that holds for your team depends on what you already run. The listing below and the feedback from other makers are the fastest way to find out.

What it does

• Session state survives reboots
• Scrollback search across all panes
• Config as a single readable file
• Sub-10ms render on large buffers

• Mara Ellis @maraellis · 2d

  Been using this on a 40-table schema all week. The rollback generation alone saved me twice. One request: a dry-run flag that prints the SQL without touching anything.

• Devin Roy @droy · 3d

  The plain-language summaries are the killer feature. My non-technical PM can review migrations now, which I did not expect to ever type.

• Sana Qureshi @sanaq · 4d

  Works well with Postgres. MySQL support felt a bit behind, the enum diffing missed a case for me. Filed an issue and got a response the same day.