Lazygit is a terminal-based user interface designed to simplify common Git operations. It provides an intuitive and efficient way for developers to interact with Git commands through a keyboard-driven interface, reducing the need to memorize complex syntax.
Key Features:
Intuitive terminal UI for streamlined Git operations.
Support for essential commands such as commit, push, pull, and more.
Keyboard navigation for quick access to features.
Cross-platform compatibility, supporting Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Integration with systems like WSL and SSH for enhanced flexibility.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for developers who prefer command-line tools but seek a user-friendly approach to Git. Lazygit enhances efficiency by minimizing syntax errors and speeding up repetitive tasks through its accessible interface.
Install lazygit easily via winget, ensuring quick setup and seamless integration into your workflow.
Maintenance of this project is made possible by all the contributors and sponsors. If you'd like to sponsor this project and have your avatar or company logo appear below click here. 💙
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Runs on all platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, iOS, Android ...
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Simple, fast and powerful
Plays everything - Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed - MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
Runs on all platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, iOS, Android ...
Completely Free - no spyware, no ads and no user tracking.
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Git for Windows focuses on offering a lightweight, native set of tools that bring the full feature set of the Git SCM to Windows while providing appropriate user interfaces for experienced Git users and novices alike.
PowerShell is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models.
It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language and a framework for processing cmdlets.
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Rant time: You've heard it before, git is powerful, but what good is that power when everything is so damn hard to do? Interactive rebasing requires you to edit a goddamn TODO file in your editor? Are you kidding me? To stage part of a file you need to use a command line program to step through each hunk and if a hunk can't be split down any further but contains code you don't want to stage, you have to edit an arcane patch file by hand? Are you KIDDING me?! Sometimes you get asked to stash your changes when switching branches only to realise that after you switch and unstash that there weren't even any conflicts and it would have been fine to just checkout the branch directly? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!
If you're a mere mortal like me and you're tired of hearing how powerful git is when in your daily life it's a powerful pain in your ass, lazygit might be for you.
Lazygit is not my fulltime job but it is a hefty part time job so if you want to support the project please consider sponsoring me
Features
Stage individual lines
Press space on the selected line to stage it, or press v to start selecting a range of lines. You can also press a to select the entirety of the current hunk.
Interactive Rebase
Press i to start an interactive rebase. Then squash (s), fixup (f), drop (d), edit (e), move up (ctrl+k) or move down (ctrl+j) any of TODO commits, before continuing the rebase by bringing up the rebase options menu with m and then selecting continue.
You can also perform any these actions as a once-off (e.g. pressing s on a commit to squash it) without explicitly starting a rebase.
This demo also uses shift+down to select a range of commits to move and fixup.
Cherry-pick
Press shift+c on a commit to copy it and press shift+v to paste (cherry-pick) it.
Bisect
Press b in the commits view to mark a commit as good/bad in order to begin a git bisect.
Nuke the working tree
For when you really want to just get rid of anything that shows up when you run git status (and yes that includes dirty submodules) kidpix style, press shift+d to bring up the reset options menu and then select the 'nuke' option.
Amend an old commit
Pressing shift+a on any commit will amend that commit with the currently staged changes (running an interactive rebase in the background).
Filter
You can filter a view with /. Here we filter down our branches view and then hit enter to view its commits.
Invoke a custom command
Lazygit has a very flexible custom command system. In this example a custom command is defined which emulates the built-in branch checkout action.
Worktrees
You can create worktrees to have multiple branches going at once without the need for stashing or creating WIP commits when switching between them. Press w in the branches view to create a worktree from the selected branch and switch to it.
Rebase magic (custom patches)
You can build a custom patch from an old commit and then remove the patch from the commit, split out a new commit, apply the patch in reverse to the index, and more.
In this example we have a redundant comment that we want to remove from an old commit. We hit on the commit to view its files, then on a file to focus the patch, then `` to add the comment line to our custom patch, and then ctrl+p to view the custom patch options; selecting to remove the patch from the current commit.
Say you're on a feature branch that was itself branched off of the develop branch, and you've decided you'd rather be branching off the master branch. You need a way to rebase only the commits from your feature branch. In this demo we check to see which was the last commit on the develop branch, then press shift+b to mark that commit as our base commit, then press r on the master branch to rebase onto it, only bringing across the commits from our feature branch. Then we push our changes with shift+p.
Undo
You can undo the last action by pressing z and redo with ctrl+z. Here we drop a couple of commits and then undo the actions.
Undo uses the reflog which is specific to commits and branches so we can't undo changes to the working tree or stash.
When viewing the commit graph in an enlarged window (use + and _ to cycle screen modes), the commit graph is shown. Colours correspond to the commit authors, and as you navigate down the graph, the parent commits of the selected commit are highlighted.
Compare two commits
If you press shift+w on a commit (or branch/ref) a menu will open that allows you to mark that commit so that any other commit you select will be diffed against it. Once you've selected the second commit, you'll see the diff in the main view and if you press you'll see the files of the diff. You can press `shift+w` to view the diff menu again to see options like reversing the diff direction or exiting diff mode. You can also exit diff mode by pressing.
Most of the above packages are maintained by third parties so be sure to vet them yourself and confirm that the maintainer is a trustworthy looking person who attends local sports games and gives back to their communities with barbeque fundraisers etc
Binary Releases
For Windows, Mac OS(10.12+) or Linux, you can download a binary release here.
Homebrew
It works with Linux, too.
brew install lazygit
MacPorts
Latest version built from github releases.
Tap:
sudo port install lazygit
Void Linux
Packages for Void Linux are available in the distro repo
They follow upstream latest releases
sudo xbps-install -S lazygit
Scoop (Windows)
You can install lazygit using scoop. It's in the extras bucket:
You should be able to build RPMs for Fedora 41 or older, and other Fedora derivatives using the
SRPM (Source RPM) file that you can grab from the latest COPR build.
Solus Linux
sudo eopkg install lazygit
Debian and Ubuntu
For Debian 13 "Trixie", Sid, and later, or Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" and later:
sudo apt install lazygit
For Debian 12 "Bookworm", Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" and earlier:
sudo zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/go/openSUSE_Factory/devel:languages:go.repo
sudo zypper ref && sudo zypper in lazygit
To install lazygit on openSUSE Leap run:
source /etc/os-release
sudo zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/go/$VERSION_ID/devel:languages:go.repo
sudo zypper ref && sudo zypper in lazygit
NixOs
On NixOs lazygit is packaged with nix and distributed via nixpkgs.
You can try the lazygit without installing it with:
nix-shell -p lazygit
# or with flakes enabled
nix run nixpkgs#lazygit
Or you can add lazygit to you configuration.nix using the environment.systemPackages option.
More details can be found via NixOs search page.
Flox
Lazygit can be installed into a Flox environment as follows.
flox install lazygit
More details about Flox can be found on their website.
FreeBSD
pkg install lazygit
Termux
apt install lazygit
Conda
Released versions are available for different platforms, see
conda install -c conda-forge lazygit
Go
go install github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit@latest
Please note:
If you get an error claiming that lazygit cannot be found or is not defined, you
may need to add ~/go/bin to your $PATH (MacOS/Linux), or %HOME%\go\bin
(Windows). Not to be mistaken for C:\Go\bin (which is for Go's own binaries,
not apps like lazygit).
If you change repos in lazygit and want your shell to change directory into that repo on exiting lazygit, add this to your ~/.zshrc (or other rc file):
lg()
{
export LAZYGIT_NEW_DIR_FILE=~/.lazygit/newdir
lazygit "$@"
if [ -f $LAZYGIT_NEW_DIR_FILE ]; then
cd "$(cat $LAZYGIT_NEW_DIR_FILE)"
rm -f $LAZYGIT_NEW_DIR_FILE > /dev/null
fi
}
Then source ~/.zshrc and from now on when you call lg and exit you'll switch directories to whatever you were in inside lazygit. To override this behaviour you can exit using shift+Q rather than just q.
Lazygit supports Gitflow if you have it installed. To understand how the Gitflow model works check out Vincent Driessen's original post explaining it. To view Gitflow options from within Lazygit, press i from within the branches view.
Contributing
We love your input! Please check out the contributing guide.
For contributor discussion about things not better discussed here in the repo, join the discord channel
Check out this video walking through the creation of a small feature in lazygit if you want an idea of where to get started.
Debugging Locally
Run lazygit --debug in one terminal tab and lazygit --logs in another to view the program and its log output side by side
Donate
If you would like to support the development of lazygit, consider sponsoring me (github is matching all donations dollar-for-dollar for 12 months)
FAQ
What do the commit colors represent?
Green: the commit is included in the master branch
Yellow: the commit is not included in the master branch
Red: the commit has not been pushed to the upstream branch
Shameless Plug
If you want to see what I (Jesse) am up to in terms of development, follow me on
twitter or check out my blog
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