15 Lazygit Features In Under 15 Minutes

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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.

[@simonbudin8078]

1. Staging files fast 0:27 2. Staging Lines 1:06 3. Cherry Picking 1:52 4. Nuking Working Tree 2:16 5. Interactive rebasing 2:56 6. Amending old commits 4:20 7. Open pull request 5:47 8. Revert commit 6:23 9. Stash selected files 6:44 10. Moving code between old commits 7:22 11. Deleting code from old commits 8:32 12. Fixing merge conflicts 9:07 13. Easy rebase onto origin/master 9:25 14. Branch checkout without stashing changes 10:13 15. Theme customisation 11:11

[@bendtherules0]

Add these to the description please

[@manfredhu2050]

There is a problem with youtube parsing. The middle 9-11 is missing.

[@picosdrivethru]

what a guy, one hell of a guy, makes wonderful tool, makes our lives better, what a guy!

[@harshitjoshi3082]

I only use basic git commands, but still this has improved my workflow tremendously. thanks for writing such great software and thanks for blessing us with your work !

[@akbarsha03]

The best git for terminal so far. Thank you

[@KaiAble0601]

Came here only to realize I didn't know how to use git.

[@idemchenko-js]

This is really awesome! Thanks for your hard work!

[@wlgrd7052]

Holy shit dude... This is amazing. Also, your pace of work and control shows that you were in fact the sole developer behind this ;D

[@ShinnyxAKAvincent]

This looks super powerful! My god, I have to learn this.. I usually do most of my stuff in iterm, then I patch up with sourcetree for rebasing & having something more "visual" to look at. Lazygit seems to be the perfect mix of terminal+the visual aspect of sourcetree. Looks quite overwhelming at first tbh, but seeing you move around so fast & naturally makes me want to learn it at all cost lol

[@korniychuk]

This guide is super extremely short/compressed and at the same time unbelievable informative/useful! I've stopped and rewound many times. This video is an example haw programming lessons should looks like. Nice job! Thank you so much for the utility and for so nice tutorial.

[@jeffbullard3822]

Yes, the tool is phenomenal but it is almost impossible to keep up with how fast he speaks. It is also quite difficult to try to keep track of the keystrokes while at the same time seeing what those keystrokes do.

[@korniychuk]

I think this lesson is created with expectation that people will pause thinking nothing, then play, and do it in a loop. I re-watched it many times and did a lot of notes

[@douglascamata]

Freaking awesome, dude! I've been using lazygit for a while and after watching this I feel like I'm at a whole new level. Just gotta practice all the cool things you taught us. Thanks!🙇‍♂

[@tiesmaster]

What an amazing tool this is!!! It took a bit of time to wrap my head around, but it's really redefining how I'm using git, and doing things (not) on the command-line. Fantastic!!!

[@johanngelhorn4653]

Just installed lazygit, and will give it a try. This little program is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for this awesome piece of code!

[@Mackinstyle]

Thanks for making this video. Trivialized learning the features.

[@MrRedwires]

Thank you so much for this explanation video, that was a pretty fun quickstart for this tool! Frankly, some of the ways you handle the git shenanigans, like the stash/checkout/pop cycle, should just be defaults. This certainly looks like a lot of fun :D

[@iliassglitch]

Jesse, Thank you so much for creating this amazing tool and making our lives significantly better. Good luck!

[@Raubritterr222]

You made an awesome app, I use it everyday! Thank you and kudos!

[@JessPatton]

Lazygit has changed the way I think about and interact with git. Thanks so much for making this amazing piece of software.

[@DougAnderson444]

FREAKING AWESOME. Thank you so much for this.

[@tofudeliverygt86]

Dude, you rock! LazyGit is my favorite way to commit files into git!

[@NitiponSuratwisit]

An awesome tool with awesome intro video. It's the masterpiece of all. The best CLI git client... and it can visualize git graph too. Love it!!

[@4790kusi]

Absolutely incredible, great stuff.

[@koisose]

THAT WAS SO FREAKING COOL MAN LOVE YOUR WORK WITH LAZYDOCKER NOW THIS

[@Mvrck44]

didn't know about lazydocker, thx

[@redhairdaywalker8479]

This is an outstanding tool. I use sublime merge or gittyup for some of my more complicated merges or when I have way too much to review. I prefer to stay in my command line though and this is so much faster to navigate and use when I want to do non-ZOMG-sized things. Steller work, my friend,...

[@robertovalle655]

You're like a feature dragon, hoarding all the features to yourself!!

[@vernongrant4710]

Just found it today, its awesome thanks.

[@roman-romadin]

Wow. I am impressed 🔥. Thank you.

[@the_teknomads]

you are a god among men. Thank you for your awesome tools. you've added so much productivity to my life. You rule!

[@andybuchanan7891]

Thanks for this mate!

[@mo5168]

Love your work, Jesse. Do you think this is something that can replace the need for vim-fugitive in neovim (with lazygit plugin)? I'm actually new to both of these tools, so I don't know if lazygit will be enough. I'm definitley going to give it a try! Thank you for creating this.

[@edderleonardo]

Thanks so much for this amazing tool

[@JavierPortillo1]

One of the only few videos that makes me set the video speed lower than normal. Only at 0.75 I could start understanding his pace haha.

[@n114]

It just awesome for me at least! Thank you for your passion :)

[@ablanchi]

wow dude, this looks sick!

[@shitpostbotmin]

insanely good git ui, even compared to the full-fat GUIs in editors like intellij and vscode. awesome work

[@evrstmusic]

This tool is gold! Hero!

[@joshua-afk]

This is insane!🔥

[@zerdofish9989]

This tools is amazing!

[@aram5642]

I hoped to see edit mode in git rebase interactive, as this is quite a common yet involving scenario to have to split a commit after it is no longer the last one in git log.

[@neunmalelf]

Great job!

[@gjermundification]

What an amazing tool!

[@desireco]

Thank you Jesse

[@vladmusteata4250]

Awesome content ^^

[@TheNacht3ule]

Amazing tool!

[@Edditoria]

I always use Git GUI in macOS but now I'm trying cheap VPS via iPad. Your software SAVE me! Thanks! Just a question: Why is it not available in (official) apt repo?

[@MarkVolkmann]

Excellent tool! The main thing that is missing for me is clear documentation on how to configure it to show side-by-side file diffs. Can someone explain how to do that? I know about git-delta, but I haven’t figured out how to get lazygit to use it.

[@greenhalo256]

Excellent tutorial - first time I've ever had to play a video at < 1x speed! One question - when I highlight a commit and hit ENTER, I am taken to a list of commit files. How to I get back to commits? It looks like you are pressing ESC, but when I do, the app quits. Thx

[@gergonagy4360]

what window manager is that? or is it iterm + tmux? love the tool and love the video

[@sebastiandelgado6263]

Holy shit, I'm seriously stunned, this shit is cool as hell, can't wait to show my coworkers!

[@fuckyeaization]

How this spooky man in this spooky room made the tool of my life

[@thengakola6217]

woah.... the legend himself

[@frelista]

Awesome!

[@AdamSmith-de5oh]

Can you alias up and down arrows to j and k with lazygit?

[@juliuskiesian]

Is there a way to visualize git commit/branching history as a graph like in gitg or gitkraken?

[@mattgarelli1371]

Is there any way to view file diffs individually, when diffing branches? Can you see remote branches (before checkout)? Thank you for the tool and the helpful video.

[@jesseduffield9516]

to view the individual files of a diff between two branches you need to hit enter (showing you the commits) and then hit enter again so that you're viewing the files of the diff between the first branch's most recent commit and the second branch (which is equivalent to the diff of the two branches). Slightly awkward I know but gets the job done! As for remote branches yes you can press enter on those too to see what commits they contain. Glad you liked the video :)

[@brucewen9326]

How is the typed keys visulized in the video?

[@smibssmibs]

I watched it all and few seconds before end I was literary going to press "q" to quit this lazygit session :-)

[@mloskot]

Being able to see sequence of the keys you hit is a greatly useful touch in your Lazygit videos. What is this feature you are using?

[@b0nes95]

How this allows chunk-based editing makes everything so much faster for me than how I was working before (searching for

[@serenad1271]

does it work with git new politic of access?

[@danilnikolaenko8961]

Hi! How can I force to remember commit message in window to not type all the text every time?

[@gergonagy4360]

anyone coming here recently: - the x for menu does not work anymore - it has been replaced by direct hotkeys and you can view them with ? - h,l moves across the panes, no need for arrows

[@AmineZyad]

Is there any way to solve merge conflicts inside lazygit?

[@maximeg3659]

* quick cheat sheet *: navigate between panel with left/right arrow in each pannel press x to pop up the cheat sheet

[@thingsiplay]

I'm completeley new to lazygit and the first thing I noticed is: Why is the undo action not bound to "u", but to "z"? The next thing I noticed is, how useful this program is!

[@ProjectileGrommet]

How does one log into their GitHub to use their repos?

[@p.m.2312]

Glad to be like #1000 Thanks for Lazygit

[@Mvrck44]

my mind: *blown*

[@guavavodka]

"turnips" on your grocery list

[@ajxbjj]

FUCKING AWESOME

[@samuelabreu4349]

great

[@iXythe]

tried using it but Bitdefender is flagging it malicious on my work laptop :(

[@stackoverflow2155]

6:36 press x for doubt. i see what you did there. XD

[@shashanksharma21]

Incredulous !

[@Dampfaeus]

It does not look lazy. Well okay, it does look very effective, but only for people that know what they're doing. I'd give it a 10 out of git-clients-for-people-who-can-navigate-by-keyboard :D

[@yash1152]

0:28 > _"alright first step ..."_ me: increase font size?

[@inspmoore]

Yes, it does git very well, but can it prepare a cheese sandwich?

[@babychaos166]

the (laziest) git tool I meet so far !!!

[@davidhowell5578]

Basically at kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYGvlZ-qg5yqnac you press X and bring up the menu with every command ... that's all I need to remember :) Of course the video is helpful to see what is possible

[@massaynus]

can any one follow those "if i go here"s

[@leohui5025]

Are you a freelancer?

[@GalaxyCat001]

You move pretty fast so instead of saying 'i grab this guy', you shld say 'i grab commit xyz' etc so it is easier to follow what you are doing.

[@cprn.]

This sucks. Not following the VIM way at all. I fought Fugitive was bad but man...

[@ig0rsky74]

Jesse, why do you live in a den bro? Good tool tho.

[@avramukk]

Hey man its really good. But have you ever know that's you are too much quick guy. I don't get all things from this video because you talking and clicking too fast) so 0.75)

[@yuningping2138]

老哥哪里的口音啊? 23333

[@MarkRuvald]

Pressing x brings up the help. Not intuitive.