Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment order> 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 effectively? That and aliases does wonders to avoid repetitive typing. Many times I type `git s` (alias for `git status -s`) out of reflex when I really meant to do `ls`. When I forget to add `-a` to `git ci -m ...` (`ci` being `commit`) and get…
A very satisfied user. As a (neo)vim user, I did suffer from magit envy but at the end, Lazygit takes care of all my needs. I prefer the UX (Just a personal preference). Kudos to the dev for the wonderful tool PS: There is also lazydocker by same person https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker
I found lazygit after building something of my own thay solves some of these problems for me - git-fuzzy [0]. I'd like to share some of my thoughts about the comparison. lazygit is a TUI for git which can behave in a standalone fashion. It's also designed to be quick and easy to use to perform quite advanced actions but ones that a seasoned git user may really want when working with git history. Since I'm already a seasoned git…
This looks far more complicated than my usual: git add -A git commit -m "update" git push -f origin master All jokes aside, looks really cool!
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- Total comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-05 | Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at GitFirst breakout · Best thread | jesseduffield | 551 | 229 |
| 2020-03-09 | Simple terminal UI for Git commands | patrickdevivo | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-03-16 | Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands | based2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2020-10-12 | LazyGit – simple terminal UI for git | harsilspatel | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-11-01 | Lazygit – simple terminal UI for Git commands | animal_spirits | 3 | 1 |
| 2021-01-27 | Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands (in Go) | ducktective | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-11-30 | Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commandsHall induction | tnorthcutt | 395 | 141 |
| 2023-07-17 | Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for git commands | underdeserver | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-07-19 | Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commandsLatest 20+ point return | thunderbong | 239 | 79 |
| 2025-06-02 | lazygit: simple terminal UI for Git commands | tosh | 2 | 0 |