Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by tnorthcutt » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 4:49 PM UTC

Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
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Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by ahurmazda » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:01 PM UTC

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

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by throwaway984393 » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:22 PM UTC

Looks awesome. It almost seems arcane now to write a program that is only is designed to make a person's everyday life simpler and easier. I love the idea of programs like this, but then I find myself nit-picking over whether I want it to be console, graphical, web... There's no such thing as a UI framework that works for all three, right?

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Post by not-my-account » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:31 PM UTC

Lazygit is terrific. I started learning git on the command line, and had that pompous opinion that "GUIs are a crutch" - but with Lazygit, I am so much faster, doing everything - comiting, squashing, rebasing, etc. I can't recommend it enough.

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Post by avgcorrection » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:49 PM UTC

throwaway984393 wrote: post #3

Looks awesome. It almost seems arcane now to write a program that is only is designed to make a person's everyday life simpler and easier. I love the idea of programs like this, but then I find myself nit-picking over whether I want it to be console, graphical, web... There's no such thing as a UI framework that works for all three, right?

I guess Emacs is a sort of UI framework, considering Magit.

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by jmcphers » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:57 PM UTC

Another great terminal UI for git is tig: https://jonas.github.io/tig/

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by peterhil » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:59 PM UTC

Impressive, 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?

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Post by sli » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 7:13 PM UTC

Switched from regular terminal use to lazygit shortly after this was released and have never looked back. I still do more complex git stuff manually, but my usual git workflow is totally covered by lazygit.

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by softwaredoug » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 7:19 PM UTC

I maintain a bunch of git aliases in my .gitconfig for my company's rebase based workflow. They cover 90% of my 'dumb' git usages

    synced = pull origin master --rebase. # Update myself with master

    squash = rebase -i origin/master # Let me optionally squash whatever has happened since master

    publish = push origin HEAD --force-with-lease  # Save to orig in (github)

    pub = push origin HEAD --force-with-lease  # Save to origin (github)

    ammend = commit --amend  # I cannot spell this word for the life of me

    amend = commit --amend

Re: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

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Post by aequitas » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 7:20 PM UTC

jmcphers wrote: post #6

Another great terminal UI for git is tig: https://jonas.github.io/tig/

Tig is great for visualising and stepping through history but for quickly performing other Git related task I found it was missing something. That something turned out to be exactly Lazygit.