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Re: Lazygit

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Post by MarkusQ » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC

joshstrange wrote: post #3

They should really put the video/gif from their repo README on the website somewhere. I clicked around for a while trying to see what it looked like and finally found it on Github.

As someone else noted, the site isn't affiliated with the project it's promoting. So there are two distinct "they"s in play here. No idea why that's the case, but it feels sus.

Re: Lazygit

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Post by ronbenton » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:32 PM UTC

So this is a landing page made by someone who doesn’t maintain the actual tool? This strikes me as a potential scam—build some domain rep off someone else’s tool then capitalize somehow

Re: Lazygit

#13

Post by aquariusDue » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:32 PM UTC

jasongill wrote: post #5

"© 2026 lazygit.dev — Unofficial site. Not affiliated with the official lazygit project or Jesse Duffield." strange

Same as with the tmux.app website. I looked around and I don't understand who's making these vibecoded websites.

Re: Lazygit

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Post by jldevezas » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:33 PM UTC

This is the second one I see in on day. There's also one for Doom Emacs. Definitely weird.

Re: Lazygit

#15

Post by LoganDark » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC

Zizizizz wrote: post #10

It honestly makes working with git so easy and fast that I would say it's the ideal way to interact with git. I highly recommend checking it out for a month if you're someone who would use git commands in the shell. I don't know how fast and visually clear the gui interfaces like the ones built into VS Code or Sublime Merge are but as someone who uses a terminal test editor having a tool like this has been fantastic.

Something else to try if you're a fan of alternative git interfaces is Jujutsu. It's CLI, and it's more of its own interface, but it's very Git-compatible, other than submodules. You pull from and push to Git remotes.

Re: Lazygit

#16

Post by varun_ch » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC

jasongill wrote: post #5

"© 2026 lazygit.dev — Unofficial site. Not affiliated with the official lazygit project or Jesse Duffield." strange

This is something I’ve seen before. Someone is registering domain names related to open source projects and then ‘creating’ slop websites about the projects. Not sure what the play is, or whether this falls into that category, but it’s really weird and takes control away from open source maintainers in a scary way. Maybe it’s extortion or maybe it’s an malware thing. I highly doubt it’s out of the goodness of someone’s heart.

Open source maintainers shouldn’t have to register their projects as trademarks/proactively register domains to avoid this, but that seems like the only strategy?

Re: Lazygit

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Post by ronbenton » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

varun_ch wrote: post #16

jasongill wrote: post #5

"© 2026 lazygit.dev — Unofficial site. Not affiliated with the official lazygit project or Jesse Duffield." strange

This is something I’ve seen before. Someone is registering domain names related to open source projects and then ‘creating’ slop websites about the projects. Not sure what the play is, or whether this falls into that category, but it’s really weird and takes control away from open source maintainers in a scary way. Maybe it’s extortion or maybe it’s an malware thing. I highly doubt it’s out of the goodness of someone…

Best case scenario they’ll try to monetize the site. Worse case it’s a malware distribution play (can eventually change legit repo link to malicious repo)

Re: Lazygit

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Post by rvz » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

aquariusDue wrote: post #13

jasongill wrote: post #5

"© 2026 lazygit.dev — Unofficial site. Not affiliated with the official lazygit project or Jesse Duffield." strange

Same as with the tmux.app website. I looked around and I don't understand who's making these vibecoded websites.

Mostly, the ones I see are from SEO scammers and domain parkers trying to pump the value of their domains to resell them, or straight up scamming others to download or even buy a re-packaged malware version of their open source software.

This is likely the reason why they do this and now vibecoding makes it easy for anyone to do this.

Re: Lazygit

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Post by c0nducktr » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 3:25 AM UTC

aquariusDue wrote: post #13

jasongill wrote: post #5

"© 2026 lazygit.dev — Unofficial site. Not affiliated with the official lazygit project or Jesse Duffield." strange

Same as with the tmux.app website. I looked around and I don't understand who's making these vibecoded websites.

I believe doomemacs.com has nothing to do with the developers either. Just more SEO spam or something.

Re: Lazygit

#20

Post by Zizizizz » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 6:09 AM UTC

LoganDark wrote: post #15

Zizizizz wrote: post #10

It honestly makes working with git so easy and fast that I would say it's the ideal way to interact with git. I highly recommend checking it out for a month if you're someone who would use git commands in the shell. I don't know how fast and visually clear the gui interfaces like the ones built into VS Code or Sublime Merge are but as someone who uses a terminal test editor having a tool like this has been fantastic.

Something else to try if you're a fan of alternative git interfaces is Jujutsu. It's CLI, and it's more of its own interface, but it's very Git-compatible, other than submodules. You pull from and push to Git remotes.

I actually use Jujutsu and jjui now but used lazygit for years. Jjui still isn't as polished as lazygit (I've added quite a few lazygit keymaps like opening the bookmark as a PR, untracking or restoring files in the current change) but it's close.

That said, I think lazygit is much faster than plain jj CLI commands. I just use JJ for undo and merge conflict resolution for the most part. (2026 was my year of JJ and I am loving it, but I can't say I don't miss lazygit's speed and niceties like showing ci/cd build statuses on each branch/bookmark)