Another great terminal UI for git is tig: https://jonas.github.io/tig/
I use tig exclusively to stage commits. Alias tigs='tig status' lets me select / discard lines.
Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
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Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
`git add -p` does that as well, it's effectively what the GUIs are using. You can also [e]dit each thing and rewrite as desired, though it can be a bit fiddly. UIs can be nicer though for rewriting / making finer-grained splits than the hunks that -p decides on, definitely agreed there. I have broken out a UI just to simplify staging some gnarly commits. GUIs are also often nicer for understanding and resolving nasty…
git gui, which comes with git, is quite efficient to do partial commits. I wrote an article about this a few years ago: https://agateau.com/2016/an-intro-to-git-gui/
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Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#43If there is one thing that terrifies me it's using Git, or any source control, from the command line. No matter how long I've been in this industry, I just can't get cozy with doing a lot of heavy lifting in any shell environment. Give me the GUI all day every day.
It's totally opposite for me. I can't understand the UI apps for GIT. Right now I am using IntelliJ Idea and it has an excellent GUI for GIT; however, for all my GIT work, I still go to terminal app. :)
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#44The first git command to be taught to beginners should be reflog.
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#45If there is one thing that terrifies me it's using Git, or any source control, from the command line. No matter how long I've been in this industry, I just can't get cozy with doing a lot of heavy lifting in any shell environment. Give me the GUI all day every day.
This has the same vibe as cooking a piece of beef until it's shoe leather
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
`git add -p` does that as well, it's effectively what the GUIs are using. You can also [e]dit each thing and rewrite as desired, though it can be a bit fiddly. UIs can be nicer though for rewriting / making finer-grained splits than the hunks that -p decides on, definitely agreed there. I have broken out a UI just to simplify staging some gnarly commits. GUIs are also often nicer for understanding and resolving nasty…
git gui, which comes with git, is quite efficient to do partial commits. I wrote an article about this a few years ago: https://agateau.com/2016/an-intro-to-git-gui/
I haven't actually tried git-gui, only gitk... I'll have to give it a try, thanks :) A first-party GUI actually gives me some hope for correct behavior. gitk is broadly excellent for example and performs great, though other GUIs do some things more smoothly - exactly what I'd want in a first-party GUI.
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#47Looks pretty great, but: Error! Your Xcode (13.0) is too outdated I don't have the luxury of upgrading yet. This requirement seems overly fussy and opinionated.
So download a binary instead of building it from source?
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#48If there is one thing that terrifies me it's using Git, or any source control, from the command line. No matter how long I've been in this industry, I just can't get cozy with doing a lot of heavy lifting in any shell environment. Give me the GUI all day every day.
Exactly the opposite for me. I absolutely do not trust GUIs to do the right thing. I don't trust text area to use correct line endings consistently across platforms, I don't trust them to be up to date with new options for `commit` or `checkout`, they never show examples what result will be (--dry-run). None GUI is ever up to date with documentation and contains all functionality which I can autocomplete with [tab][t…
In regards to `-p` -- Lazygit does this. You can press Spacebar to stage individual lines and then partially commit or stash the staged stuff.
I like it better than git's built-in `-p` because you don't have to rely on git chunking things up the way you hoped, or spend time splitting git's chunks (hunks?) to get the specific line you wanted to stage.
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#49Looks pretty great, but: Error! Your Xcode (13.0) is too outdated I don't have the luxury of upgrading yet. This requirement seems overly fussy and opinionated.
I believe that's coming from homebrew itself, which is pretty aggressive about updating everything. The homebrew formula contains no reference to xcode version, for example: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#50If there is one thing that terrifies me it's using Git, or any source control, from the command line. No matter how long I've been in this industry, I just can't get cozy with doing a lot of heavy lifting in any shell environment. Give me the GUI all day every day.
This has the same vibe as cooking a piece of beef until it's shoe leather
It’s more like using hamburger helper instead of a spice rack, a GUI can be excellent and better than CLI, beef isn’t always better when it’s overcooked.