jesseduffield

lazygit

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jesseduffield / lazygit

lazygit

simple terminal UI for git commands

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What it is

simple terminal UI for git commands

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Lazygit is amazing: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit I have no connection to this program, other than that I love it, and shill for it every time I get the chance.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	14	5	9
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	16	2	14
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	15	1	14
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	11	2	9
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	25	2	23
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	12	2	10
2026 (partial)	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	8	0	8

What Hacker News says

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PhilippGille·Dec 24, 2024

> At least the good news is that TUI apps are not getting any traction, and I can completely understand why. lazygit (54k stars on GitHub) and k9s got a lot of traction and are very popular: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit https://github.com/derailed/k9s

In Show HN: Keypub.sh – OAuth for the terminal using SSH keys

terhechte·Dec 17, 2024

There're multiple solutions like this and I've used some of them over the past years. - There's obviously the fantastic Magit (https://github.com/magit/magit) which is an Emacs Plugin but you can configure your Emacs start up just with Magic and nothing else so that Emacs is only used as a TUI Git client. I did this for a while. - There's GitUI written in Rust (https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui) I did use this for a long time but recently switched over to LazyGit for the better Vim bindings and having more features - LazyGit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) is what I'm using right now and I'm mostly happy I actually wrote my own in C some years ago called Gitsi (https://github.com/terhechte/gitsi). One thing that I added that (as far as I know) none of the others have and I sorely miss is VIM number based movements. So you can

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say 4j and jump 4 selections down. This makes it much faster (for me) to jump to the one file I'd like to commit. I ultimately stopped developing Gitsi because I didn't have the time to implement all the features others had readily available. I do prefer TUI based Git clients to full blown GUI apps because of the keyboard movement. So I can quickly enter do something and exit, while staying in the terminal

In Tig: Text-Mode Interface for Git

corytheboyd·Dec 3, 2024

Lazygit patches are a great way to do this. You can interactively select lines from commits to “pull out” making them easy to form new commits with. Takes some getting used to, but it is the exact flow you are talking about. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit?tab=readme-ov-file#... Oh you edited to say drag and drop. Lazygit is a TUI and patches are very much keyboard driven. Still worth thinking about? It’s free!

In Rewrite Git history via drag-and-drop

PhilippGille·Nov 23, 2024

If you like lazydocker also check out lazygit by the same author: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

In Lazy Docker: The lazier way to manage everything Docker

your_fin·Nov 16, 2024

For the TUI inclined, lazygit [1] and magit (emacs) [2] both have quick and intuitive ways of handling this. They're also both wonderful companions to the git cli for day to day version control. [1]: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit [2]: https://magit.vc/

In The Art of Manually Editing Hunks

uallo·Nov 9, 2024

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/blob/master/docs/Cu...

In Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output

roflchoppa·Oct 23, 2024

I came to suggest (once again) lazygit. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit Love the ability to pull a hunk out of a commit, create a new commit, then throw it over to another branch, with the press of a few keys.

In How I use git

roflchoppa·Oct 23, 2024

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit Can do it with a couple keys, 4 (commits tab), then ctl+j/k depending on where you want the commit to be.

In How I use git

arcanemachiner·Oct 14, 2024

Lazygit works well for merge conflicts (and many other things): https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit (I am not actually sure what a three-way merge conflict is though TBH.)

In Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor

the_duke·Oct 14, 2024

I think all of this is available in lazygit as well, which seems to still be way too unknown, despite the 50k stars: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

In Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor

syntaxing·Oct 14, 2024

Nice work! Lazygit is a pretty popular too that does git stuff via a TUI (everything from rebasing to nuking your local) [1] https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

In Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor

juhanakristian·Sep 27, 2024

Lazygit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) I know there are probably many GUI git tools and editor integrations which make using git fast and easy but I've been mostly using the CLI. Lazygit makes doing things like cherry picking really easy and once you learn the shortcuts it's pretty fast to use.

In Ask HN: What is one software product that boosted your productivity?

jesseduffield·Sep 26, 2024

Lazygit has its own built-in approach to this problem which is much more strict than what git-absorb does (it explicitly asks for confirmation if there's any ambiguity). There's an extensive writeup about it here: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/blob/master/docs/de...

In Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic

arunix·Sep 16, 2024

There's also lazygit which does have features like this https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

In Learn Git Branching

animal_spirits·Aug 22, 2024

Using lazygit is probably the most efficient way to do git IMO. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

In Aliasing Your Git Commands for Maximum Developer Efficiency

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