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Comment by gwbas1c

4 months ago

I just took lazygit for a spin:

In general, the tool looks cool. It also looks like it takes time to learn; but if you find it useful, it's probably worth it taking the time to learn.

There were two blockers for me:

1: I can't free-form select text with a mouse like a can in a terminal. (I honestly haven't used a TUI since the 1990s.) I frequently copy bits of branch names from the terminal, so this was a big deal for me. There is a way to "disable" the mouse in lazygit, which then allows copy & paste; but as I prefer to learn a program with point & click, it's a non-starter for me.

2: A lot of this functionality is built into Visual Studio for me. I use a mix of Visual Studio's point & click with git, and then the git command-line: Whichever is easiest for the specific task I'm doing. It just takes a bit more exploration in Visual Studio to find this functionality, as opposed to it being front and center when starting lazygit.

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witcher  3 months ago

(author of the blog post here)

Fully agree!

1. Yes, it's been a frustration initially, but it has a nice benefit - it forces you to use native features (e.g. patch based copy/reset). Apparently it's on the radar, but not implemented yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898167 discussion. Using IDE is great if all your machines has this IDE installed (and GUI in general). The stability (graphical layout) is likely changing often though.

lordnacho  4 months ago

If you run it in a tmux, you can do "set -g mouse on" in your config and then just select whatever you want.