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The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
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Re: The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
#12A large percentage of git users are unaware of git-absorb (https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb). This complements just about any git flow, vastly reducing the pain of realising you want to amend your staged changes into multiple commits.
This sits well alongside many TUIs and other tools, most of which do not offer any similar capability.
Re: The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
#13I was a big fan of a good keyboard-driven git TUI like magit, neogit, lazygit, etc... (as long as you learn the CLI first and understand it). Now I no longer directly use git, but instead use jujutsu (jj). Once I became very proficient in the jj cli, I picked up jjui: https://github.com/idursun/jjui Also, as splitting commits is an extremely frequent operation, this neovim plugin is really nice: https://github.com/ju…
Thank you for the many tool links! You seems to know this space well. I have come to pick your brain for more. I have been searching for a while for good tools to split/regroup diffs in a patch series. hunk.nvim looks interesting. Do you know of similar/competing tools? I frequently hit a problem where removing a spurious hunk from an old commit causes cascading conflicts in all subsequent commits. Are there tools to…
Not the GP, but I might recommend Jujutsu for that, try it and see. It does the right thing when you resolve commits, and it propagates them to git. However, I'm not sure if it'll work, try it and see.
Re: The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
#14You might laugh, but in years of serious development, I have not come across a better git UI tool than SourceTree. If I want to be hard-core, I'd use the original git CLI. SourceTree is unmatched in how it makes using git so much more pleasant for when you need to do something relatively simple, but which would be quite cumbersome to do with the CLI and most other tools I've tried. Its file status and history view is…
Did you try magit? There's a bit of learning curve as it's built on top of Emacs, but it's entirely keyboard driven. I still have to find a workflow that it does not support.
Re: The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
#15A large percentage of git users are unaware of git-absorb ( https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb ). This complements just about any git flow, vastly reducing the pain of realising you want to amend your staged changes into multiple commits. This sits well alongside many TUIs and other tools, most of which do not offer any similar capability.
I see the usefulness. But my client is magit, and committing and rebasing are so quick that this will reduce perhaps 30 seconds to one minute to my workflow. And I do not like most rust tools, because they're too dependency heavy.
Re: The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
#16I was a big fan of a good keyboard-driven git TUI like magit, neogit, lazygit, etc... (as long as you learn the CLI first and understand it). Now I no longer directly use git, but instead use jujutsu (jj). Once I became very proficient in the jj cli, I picked up jjui: https://github.com/idursun/jjui Also, as splitting commits is an extremely frequent operation, this neovim plugin is really nice: https://github.com/ju…
Jujutsu is much better than git, and I've switched to it completely, but I do still use lazygit for one thing: It has better diff viewing, it separates the diffs by file and they look nicer. It's the only thing keeping me on lazygit, as jjui is much better otherwise.
Re: The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
#17Yes! Godspeed to lazygit!
Really happy to see it featured here, I became a convert couple of years ago after switching to Astronvim (lazyvim is bundled with it).
Re: The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
#18Maybe one day, but after almost 15 years of using handful of git aliases I just can’t switch to anything else.
Re: The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
#19A large percentage of git users are unaware of git-absorb ( https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb ). This complements just about any git flow, vastly reducing the pain of realising you want to amend your staged changes into multiple commits. This sits well alongside many TUIs and other tools, most of which do not offer any similar capability.
It's in the GNU/Debian repo and I guess in a lot of other distros as well.
Re: The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
#20I'm stuck on a mac these days and I miss Git Extensions, my favorite Windows git UI