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15 Lazygit Features In Under 15 Minutes

Jesse Duffield · demo · Watch on YouTube

Testing, debugging & developer tools

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as the author's own quick intro to lazygit, a TUI that makes git workflows more natural.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “which allows you to stage individual lines among other features.”

    Lazygit stages individual lines among other features.

    kobalsky, 2022-11 · Recommendation · in “Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client”

  2. “There is a nice video from the author that introduces a lot of its features.”

    Author's intro video covering many lazygit features.

    peterfication, 2022-11 · Recommendation · in “Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client”

  3. “it's a TUI program that's usable independently, that also happens to embed really well within vim.”

    Lazygit TUI that works standalone and embeds well in vim.

    haskman, 2026-03 · Recommendation · in “Rebasing in Magit”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: lazygit, git, tui, version control, developer tools

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