lazygit
Dev tools
git terminal ui
SHOW HN2018
551points
229comments
#26of 2,155 in 2018
Top 2%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
15 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 10 for, 6 againstExecution: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks great and useful for faster git workflows
From 3 comments
This looks great. For some reason I don't mind using the GUI tools to view history and branches but for commits always use the command line. This should save some time and much…
karmakaze on HNThanks for making this, it looks great! I'll be giving it a shot tomorrow. I've been moving more and more to terminal for all of my development. My dev. stack is now: vim; tmux;…
was_boring on HNThis utility is nice. Let me try out and save some time.
anandaverma18 on HN
Nice UI
From 1 comment
Damn, that's a really nice UI!
antjanus on HN
Objections
Aliases and shell keybindings already solve this
From 3 comments
> are YOU tired of typing every git command directly into the terminal I'm not. Are there many people that are? Is this not just a matter of learning to use shell keybindings…
jolmg on HNPersonally I have been typing all git commands manually into the terminal and never felt a need for GUIs or tools such as this. There are a number of git shortcuts defined in my…
stockkid on HNI don't touch aliases. History search with fzf is much better. Same number of keystrokes, but your actions remain clear and explicit.
idiomatic1 on HN
Editor integration is better than a separate tool
From 2 comments
If you status, commit, diff often then you don't want to leave your editor, because every little things (switching to a terminal just to do git stuff) adds up in the long run.…
dmortin on HNIf you editor has a correct git support, you never need to do git status because it will show you which files had been edited since the last commit. Every time I hear people…
hv42 on HN
Requests
Better documentation
From 1 comment
Looks nice but I think you need some better documentation before anyone can use it.
amleszk on HN
An undo command for git
From 1 comment
You know what would make me faster at git? "git undo" : undo the last git command line, whatever it did. Especially if you don't understand what it did or it overwrote local files.
pjc50 on HN
Questions
How to build a Go exe on Windows without embedded file paths
From 1 comment
'Go' question that came up when I tried to build this: How do you build a Go .EXE on Windows that doesn't have any file paths embedded in it?
mehrdadn on HN
Alternatives named
tig
From 2 comments
Awesome work OP! I’m a big fan of using tools like this to supplement git, especially when it comes to some of the more complex operations. Personally I use tig, which is…
pandler on HNBut why? There are so many awesome tools like tig and magit! - https://github.com/jonas/tig - https://magit.vc/
a-b on HN
magit
From 2 comments
If you're an emacs user, I can't recommend magit [1] enough. I was a diehard CLI user and had flags and aliases out the wazoo, and it was still a step change in usabilty and…
nickbarnwell on HNBut why? There are so many awesome tools like tig and magit! - https://github.com/jonas/tig - https://magit.vc/
a-b on HN
GitKraken
From 1 comment
One Git UI that I absolutely love but I rarely see mentioned is GitKraken. It's so nice having a fully cross-platform Git GUI, that's attractive and intuitive.
cpeth on HN
SourceTree
From 2 comments
> are YOU tired of typing every git command directly into the terminal, but you're too stubborn to use Sourcetree because you'll never forgive Atlassian for making Jira? This is…
austenallred on HNThis looks super neat. Will try it out. Although I’m a sourcetree user... lately `git add -i` has changed how I use got massively.
nvahalik on HN
GitHub Desktop
From 2 comments
I'm not. I use GitHub Desktop for commits (with a subset of changed lines sometimes), pushing, pulling, merging, creating and deleting branches, looking at changes I did since…
red75prime on HNI use GitHub desktop, it’s pretty solid.
hartator on HN
VS Code GitLens
From 1 comment
I use VS Code and GitLens lately. VSCode’s diff view and GitLens explorer cover my needs very well.
kbumsik on HN