Lazygit

I learned three things from Chris Coyier´s article:

1. Lazygit is a terminal UI (TUI) for Git. It is written in Go by Jesse Duffield and it works cross-platform! What stands out to me is how easy you can control it with the keyboard. Regular stage-commit-push work can be done from the files area [2] by using the keyboard shortcuts SPACE to stage, C to commit, and SHIFT P to push. The branches area [3] allows to create a new branch with N, which will also checkout the branch. Merging any branch into the current branch is done with SHIFT M, deleting any branch with D. Display the context-sensitive keybindings with ?. I installed it via homebrew on my Mac with

   brew install lazygit

   (there are more ways to install). From then on, when I´m in the terminal inside of a Git repo, typing the command lazygit will start the tool. It´s impressive what Jesse is doing here.

2. TUI is the abbreviation for Terminal UI.
3. There are libraries specialized to create TUI´s, like the libs mentioned on Awesome TUIs, by Justin Garrison, and charm.sh.

I´ve added Lazygit to my list of apps because of it´s cross-platform availability and because of the keyboard navigation. It´s complementing my Fork Git client.