This looks great, looking forward to trying it out. I am kind of getting X Tree Gold vibes, great to see that the UI colours are customisable, I might have a crack at giving this an X Tree Gold theme / look.
Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
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Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#62If 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…
I'm definitely team command-line for git, but I've been happily using lazygit to quickly review repo changes before committing and it's been pretty good for that.
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Literally every git GUI I've used has screwed up a git repository at some point, requiring relatively-advanced CLI use to untangle it. They're wildly untrustworthy IMO. They also almost never perform reasonably on truly large repos, aside from gitk. Since using a GUI has inevitably required me to learn CLI in depth, and adds the complexity of figuring out what the hell the GUI actually did because of course it doesn'…
I found this to be true for a long time, but these days you have something like Fork which is much lore user friendly and FAST! We used to use Sourcetree, which is an abomination in comparison. I always use(d) the terminal, but Fork is the first time I am considering using a GUI as my main tool. Granted I haven't had to do anything complicated yet with it, so I don't know if it supports it, but I love it for the basi…
Fork is amazing, paid user here. We used to be on SourceTree but found out the hard way that it's a massive CPU hog, especially after being open for a long time (at least on Mac OS).
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#64use it all day for all my development work, really cool to see it on the front page :)
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#65If 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…
I use magit in emacs and I can create any commit I want by slicing out a bunch of characters in a diff.
The git CLI is workable for a lot of things,but the experience of higlighting an arbitrary block of text and saying "commit THIS" has not been matched in any other git UI. We're not talking about hunks or lines here, but literally committing an abitrary range of characters.
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#66seen the name, had to laugh... I actually own the domain lazygit.net... when i bought it, it was more for the idea that git is slang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)), which, actually, while reading on Wikipedia, seems one of the reasons Linus picked the name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Naming)...
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
i can firmly say that installing emacs and doom emacs is well worth it solely for the magit interface. simply phenomonal. if you know the bare basics of emacs(like a few file commands and how to exit), magit and vim that is a huge productivity win. magit is simply the finest complete git gui that does most things seamlessly. simple workflow in the project dir $ emacs spc-g-g to enter magit ? shows help(and every comm…
I haven't used that one, but the experience you describe is similar to GitSavvy in Sublime. Which is the only reason I install sublime these days.
So I just tried it out and it's noticeably more irritating than magit on first brush:
doesn't work well with vim plugins... need to go to insert mode to actually interact with it (might be configurable and fixable)
stuff that takes one keystroke on magit is clunkier in gitsavvy. tab in magit expands short diffs from the main status page where you can stage or unstage selections or get an overview of the changes. l to "inline diff" opens a diff in a new file whereas tab just opens and closes sections on the main dashboard. ctrl-jk move from chunk to chunk. enter opens the file to edit or more generally does an action like view the commit under the cursor if you are in a the log graph and q will "quit" out and pop the interaction back to the log graph.
it's hard to overstate just how well everything flows in magit and i've never heard anyone say anything bad about it other than something like I wish it wasn't tied to emacs. simply the best and most well thought out piece of software i've used.
edit: i'm just scratching the surface on what magit can do... literally everything is possible through the interface even one off git commands but almost everything is very easy and interactive from any point in the interface
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#68Fulltime lazygit user here. Honestly, this program is the best of both worlds, a fast keyboard friendly gui, with the ability to interact with git as if it were you typing the commands by hand.
Protip: alias lg="lazygit"
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#69Impressive, although quite large program! One suggestion: Use PgUp and Pgdown to scroll a screenful, and use arrow keys to scroll one or two lines. Use shift with some keys to scroll half screens. Is there a keyboard shortcut to go into remotes or tags panes?
Yeah I regret using pgup/pgdown for regular scrolling in the beginning. I'm gonna add keybindings for paging up and down properly (so that a user can remap those to pgup/pgdown) and I think down the line I might change that to be the default behaviour, but it's tricky when it comes to keybindings people are now familiar with after using the app for a while.
Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
#70If 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.
The command-line is the gateway to scriptability.
> I just can't get cozy with doing a lot of heavy lifting in any shell environment
I've argued that undergrads should spend their first year (or first semester) almost exclusively on the terminal/in the shell. Sure it makes some operations cumbersome but after you get over the learning curve the returns are spectacular.