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Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by typon »

stavros wrote: post #79
7kay wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I ask what made you choose lazygit instead of fugitive? I'm using the latter and am quite happy with it, but I'm keen to learn what I'm missing out on.

I use both, though I only use fugitive for "git blame" and I use Lazygit for log browsing and partial staging. With me, it's just what tool will stick, fugitive might be great but I just don't stick with it. Same with editors, I really want to like VS Code but in the end I just open vim by default again.

Same here. Fugitive for me is really only good at git blame and git diff. Rebasing, branching, stashing, commiting is better done with lazygit

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by danielvaughn »

Groxx wrote: post #23
agilob wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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 use Fork for picking apart which lines I want to commit. It's very cumbersome to commit only specific files and lines using the terminal.

I use the terminal for everything else. I would never trust a GUI to do a rebase, not even sure if it's possible with Fork because I've never tried.

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by lysp »

acherion wrote: post #61

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.

If you use windows, I recommend jumping on ZTree Win.

https://www.ztw3.com/

It's a port of xtree gold that works on modern windows. I've been using it daily for probably a decade.

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by gefhfff »

agilob wrote: post #16
jordanmorgan10 wrote: post #12

If 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…

Gitkraken has an undo button :)

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by ahurmazda »

7kay wrote: post #72
ahurmazda wrote: post #2

A very satisfied user. As a (neo)vim user, I did suffer from magit envy but at the end, Lazygit takes care of all my needs. I prefer the UX (Just a personal preference). Kudos to the dev for the wonderful tool PS: There is also lazydocker by same person https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker

May I ask what made you choose lazygit instead of fugitive? I'm using the latter and am quite happy with it, but I'm keen to learn what I'm missing out on.

Personally I’m not a fan of the fugitive/magit style UI, ie learn a bunch of esoteric commands (:Git blah) so that you don’t need to remember the other set of original commands.

With lazygit/tig, at least there is a visual pager with shortcut letter I need to press along with a text hint about what it actually does.

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by bogwog »

jordanmorgan10 wrote: post #12

If 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.

I know this is going to sound elitist, but it always bothers me to see comments like this that make it seem like it's okay to not learn how computers work even though you're a software developer (which I'm assuming you are).

The command line isn't some mystical scary thing, it's a extremely effective method of controlling a computer. It's survived this long for a reason, and it's not going to go anywhere. It's powerful, and extremely simple. Children learn how to use it every day (nerdy children, but still).

Try spending a few hours over the weekend actually trying to learn it. If you do, you'll see how it's a lot easier than you thought, and saying that you're "terrified" of it is silly.

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by bogwog »

GhettoComputers wrote: post #50
rackjack wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> a GUI can be excellent and better than CLI

A unicycle can also be better than a car. Doesn't mean anyone should ever choose a unicycle over a car (unless you're a clown I guess)

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by smusamashah »

agilob wrote: post #16
jordanmorgan10 wrote: post #12

If 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…

IntelliJ allows partial commits really well. Use it all the time. SmartGit also does the same. One problem with intellij UI is that it doesn't let you 'uncheck' line ending change from being staged like it does for individual changes in a file.

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by mukesh610 »

nnanda wrote: post #43
jordanmorgan10 wrote: post #12

If 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. :)

Usually, I feel like git is more than enough. But when I have my push rejected because I failed to fetch first, it's just a single click in IntelliJ to fetch, rebase my work on that and push it again.

There's also hub, from GitHub. I find myself using "hub sync" to update all my local branches at once.

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