lazygit
Author: Jesse Duffield
Alternative to: git
License: MIT
Language: Go
This page last updated: 2026-03-29
Lazygit is a TUI git that makes complex git operations accessible through keyboard-driven menus. lazygit provides a visual staging area, branch management view, and commit history browser.
The tool excels at operations that are cumbersome in raw git:
- Interactive rebasing with squashing and fixing commits
- Cherry-picking between branches
- Staging individual lines within files
- Amending old commits without manual rebasing
Lazygit also provides bisect support for binary search debugging, custom patch building from old commits, worktree management for multiple branch workspaces, and undo/redo functionality via the reflog. The color-coded commit graph visualization makes it easy to understand repository history at a glance.
