{"id":2880,"date":"2024-07-02T08:32:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2024-07-02T08:32:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:32:06","slug":"lazygit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/lazygit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazygit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve long been a GUI guy for using Git (<a href=\"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/tower-vs-github-desktop\/\">\ud83d\udd17<\/a>). It just makes sense to me to clearly visually see an manipulate the files I&#8217;m staging and committing, seeing nice lists of current branches and PRs at a glance, and seeing the diffs and conflicts in a dedicated UI. But I get it, a lot of developers are just terminal people. They are very comfortable there and can do anything I can do (probably better). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just found out about <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jesseduffield\/lazygit?tab=readme-ov-file#usage\">Lazygit<\/a>, and am finding it a fascinating in-between of command-line Git and GUI Git. A TUI, if you will, a Terminal User Interface, which I&#8217;m just now understanding <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rothgar\/awesome-tuis\">is a thing<\/a>. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/pawelgrzybek.com\/lazygit-the-convenience-of-gui-with-the-power-of-git-cli\/\">people totally love it<\/a>, and I&#8217;m giving it a bit of a whirl for fun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/stage_lines-compressed.gif?resize=1024%2C744&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/stage_lines-compressed.gif?resize=1024%2C744&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/stage_lines-compressed.gif?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/stage_lines-compressed.gif?resize=768%2C558&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and speaking of TUIs, if you were interesting in building one, <a href=\"https:\/\/charm.sh\/\">the tools available at charm.sh<\/a> are pretty mind-blowing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been a GUI guy for using Git (\ud83d\udd17). It just makes sense to me to clearly visually see an manipulate the files I&#8217;m staging and committing, seeing nice lists of current branches and PRs at a glance, and seeing the diffs and conflicts in a dedicated UI. But I get it, a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[52,141],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-command-line","tag-git"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-02-at-9.27.57%E2%80%AFAM.png?fit=2444%2C1764&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2902,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}