lazygit

A fast, keyboard-driven terminal UI for Git built in Go. lazygit brings visual branch management, hunk-level staging, interactive rebase, and stash management to your terminal — no memorizing flags required.

What is lazygit?

lazygit is an open-source terminal UI for Git written in Go by Jesse Duffield. It wraps Git operations in a split-pane keyboard-driven interface you can use without leaving your terminal. The five main panels — Status, Files, Branches, Commits, and Stash — let you navigate and execute Git operations with single-key commands.

Unlike GUI applications, lazygit stays in the terminal, making it ideal for SSH sessions, remote servers, or developers who prefer a keyboard-centric workflow. It executes real Git commands under the hood (you can see them in a log panel), so it is fully compatible with any Git repository and workflow.

Key Features

• Keyboard-driven TUI — every operation has a single-key shortcut, no mouse required
• Visual diff viewer — syntax-highlighted diffs with side-by-side option
• Hunk-level staging — stage or unstage individual diff hunks with 'space', not just whole files
• Interactive rebase — squash, fixup, reword, drop, and reorder commits visually
• Branch management — create, checkout, merge, delete, and track remote branches
• Stash management — stash, pop, apply, and drop stashes from the stash panel
• Undo/redo — lazygit tracks its own action history so you can undo operations with 'z'
• Custom keybindings — configure shortcuts and run custom shell commands from within lazygit

Installation

# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install lazygit

# Windows (winget)
winget install JesseDuffield.lazygit

# Windows (Scoop)
scoop install lazygit

# Linux (apt — Ubuntu/Debian)
LAZYGIT_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[^"]*')
curl -Lo lazygit.tar.gz "https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest/download/lazygit_${LAZYGIT_VERSION}_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz"
tar xf lazygit.tar.gz lazygit
sudo install lazygit /usr/local/bin

# Go (any platform)
go install github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit@latest

Run lazygit in any Git repository to launch the UI.

Essential Keybindings

Use Cases

• Staging individual hunks for granular, atomic commits without leaving the terminal
• Interactive rebase to clean up a messy local branch before pushing
• Fast branch switching, merging, and remote tracking in a split-pane view
• Managing stashes when context-switching between tasks
• Reviewing commit history and diffs on remote servers over SSH
• Pairing with Neovim via lazygit.nvim for an all-terminal development environment

Pros and Cons