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15 Lazygit Features In Under 15 Minutes

Jesse Duffield

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  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2022 to 2026.
  • Presented by Jesse Duffield, creator of lazygit
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Beginner. No background in the topic needed.

271K views6 years ago3 recommendations

Tools and practiceGit and version controlThe shell and command line

Jesse Duffield demonstrates fifteen features of lazygit, a terminal UI for git designed to simplify common version control tasks.

If you want to sponsor me as an open-source developer, github is matching donations dollar-for-dollar for the next 12 months! github.com/sponsors/jesseduffield if you use git on a daily basis, I know your pain. Though it's a powerful tool, it often feels like it's unnecessarily hard to do conceptually simple tasks. Lazygit lets you do these things the easy way. There is a good chance that one of these 15 features could save you time and effort, so have a look and see if lazygit could improve your life as a programmer.

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3 people recommend this

What people say. Highly recommended by engineers as a great introduction to the features and workflow improvements of lazygit.

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On “Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client”

> git add -p allows me to add chunks easily and create commits your workflow resembles mine so I'm in the obligation of mentioning link which allows you to stage individual lines among other features. link to this video

peterficationon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client”

Using lazygit has improved my usage of Git so much! There is a nice video from the author that introduces a lot of its features. 0: link to this video

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On “Rebasing in Magit”

Vim/Neovim users should look at LazyGIT. link to this video The best part - it's a TUI program that's usable independently, that also happens to embed really well within vim.

rakooon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Jujutsu (jj), a Git compatible VCS”

If anything, lazygit has shown it is possible to have more natural workflows on top of git as demonstrated by link to this video , so it is indeed possible