15 Lazygit Features In Under 15 Minutes
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as the author's own quick intro to lazygit, a TUI that makes git workflows more natural.
What it is
The author of lazygit demos 15 features of his terminal UI for git, such as staging individual lines and easier rebasing, aimed at making common git tasks simpler.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2022 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends kobalsky · 2022-11 · 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. [this video]
Recommends peterfication · 2022-11 · 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]: [this video]
Recommends haskman · 2026-03 · on “Rebasing in Magit”
Vim/Neovim users should look at LazyGIT. [this video] The best part - it's a TUI program that's usable independently, that also happens to embed really well within vim.
Cites rakoo · 2024-10 · 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 [this video] , so it is indeed possible