A simple terminal UI for git commands, written in Go with the gocui library.

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.

• Installation
  • Binary releases
  • Homebrew
  • MacPorts
  • Ubuntu
  • Void Linux
  • Scoop (Windows)
  • Arch Linux
  • Fedora and CentOS 7
  • Solus Linux
  • Funtoo Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • Conda
  • Go
  • Chocolatey (Windows)
  • Manual
• Usage
  • Keybindings
  • Changing directory on exit
  • Undo/Redo
• Configuration
  • Custom pagers
  • Custom commands
• Tutorials
• Cool Features
• Contributing
• Donate
• Alternatives

Github Sponsors is matching all donations dollar-for-dollar for 12 months so if you're feeling generous consider sponsoring me

For Windows, Mac OS(10.12+) or Linux, you can download a binary release here.

Normally the lazygit formula can be found in the Homebrew core but we suggest you tap our formula to get the frequently updated one. It works with Linux, too.

Tap:

brew install jesseduffield/lazygit/lazygit

Core:

brew install lazygit

Latest version built from github releases. Tap:

sudo port install lazygit

Deprecated: will no longer receive updates.

Packages for Ubuntu are available via Launchpad PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lazygit-team/release
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lazygit

Packages for Void Linux are available in the distro repo

They follow upstream latest releases

sudo xbps-install -S lazygit

You can install lazygit using scoop. It's in the extras bucket:

# Add the extras bucket
scoop bucket add extras

# Install lazygit
scoop install lazygit

Packages for Arch Linux are available via pacman and AUR (Arch User Repository).

There are two packages. The stable one which is built with the latest release and the git version which builds from the most recent commit.

• Stable: sudo pacman -S lazygit
• Development: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lazygit-git/

Instruction of how to install AUR content can be found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository

Packages for Fedora and CentOS 7 are available via Copr (Cool Other Package Repo).

sudo dnf copr enable atim/lazygit -y
sudo dnf install lazygit

sudo eopkg install lazygit

Funtoo Linux has an autogenerated lazygit package in dev-kit:

sudo emerge dev-vcs/lazygit

pkg install lazygit

Released versions are available for different platforms, see https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/lazygit

conda install -c conda-forge lazygit

go get github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

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 mistaked for C:\Go\bin (which is for Go's own binaries, not apps like Lazygit).

You can install lazygit using Chocolatey:

choco install lazygit

You'll need to install Go

git clone https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit.git
cd lazygit
go install

You can also use go run main.go to compile and run in one go (pun definitely intended)

Call lazygit in your terminal inside a git repository.

$ lazygit

If you want, you can also add an alias for this with echo "alias lg='lazygit'" >> ~/.zshrc (or whichever rc file you're using).

You can check out the list of keybindings here.

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 lazyigt. To override this behaviour you can exit using shift+Q rather than just q.

See the docs

Check out the configuration docs.

See the docs

If lazygit is missing a feature, there's a good chance you can implement it yourself with a custom command!

See the docs

• Video Tutorial
• Rebase Magic Video Tutorial
• Twitch Stream

• Adding files easily
• Resolving merge conflicts
• Easily check out recent branches
• Scroll through logs/diffs of branches/commits/stash
• Quick pushing/pulling
• Squash down and reword commits

We love your input! Please check out the contributing guide. For contributor discussion about things not better discussed here in the repo, join the slack channel

Run lazygit --debug in one terminal tab and lazygit --logs in another to view the program and its log output side by side

If you would like to support the development of lazygit, consider sponsoring me (github is matching all donations dollar-for-dollar for 12 months)

see here

If you want to see what I (Jesse) am up to in terms of development, follow me on twitter or watch me program on twitch.

If you find that lazygit doesn't quite satisfy your requirements, these may be a better fit:

• GitUI
• tig