Comment by witcher
3 months ago
(author of the blog here)
That's a great point. I should have mention the IDE Git UIs, def a nice option and sounds like the JB one works well for you!
I do use it heavily for "annotating git blame"!
I've never consider using JB Git UI fully mainly because of the point made earlier, so stability (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898089). Once you learn, especially visually, you don't want cosmetic changes. IDEs change yearly to stay "consistent".
Another point is portability. E.g. I didn't want to pay for personal use of JB (so rare case), so I have to use different IDE. Separate tools (especially free and OSS) is a big advantage. Not mentioning ability to use it on remote shells or different machines!
lazy git offers 1, but 2 and 3 points are interesting. Wonder if there's an easy way to compare commits and filter commits by user and folder in lazygit. (:
EDIT: Actually, I also use JB for conflict resolutions ;P so not entirely 100% lazygit flow.
I don't think JB UIs been changing that much, albeit I haven't been working in the industry long enough. I think the last major UI redo was like 2,3 years ago and most of it is to make UI more compact, and I definitely like it. That being said YMMV.
IMHO another good thing of using JB IDE git UI (especially in a corporate setting) instead of using another software is that everyone has the IDE so it's easier to collaborate. Imagine if you're helping a junior member debug their local branch and they don't have lazy git installed.