Comment by TheSorcerer

1 day ago

Hi HN, I've been building Ziggity, a keyboard-driven terminal UI for Git. It's inspired by lazygit (which I used daily), but written from scratch in Zig rather than being a port.

Why another one? Two reasons, honestly. There were a few areas of lazygit I wanted to improve on for my own workflow, and I wanted a real project to build in Zig, which is genuinely powerful and fast, and a joy once it clicks. It compiles to a single small static binary with explicit memory ownership and no libgit2, it just shells out to the `git` you already have. The UI is built on libvaxis. And I let myself add a bit of sugar along the way, because a tool you stare at all day might as well be pleasant.

A few things that are a bit different from lazygit: - A divergence view + status-coloured commit hashes so ahead/behind commits stand out at a glance - Independent drill-downs in the Branches/Commits panels (deliberate, not a port artifact) - Line level staging, interactive rebase, custom patch building, bisect, arbitrary-ref diffing

It's honest about its stage: v0.3.0, macOS/Linux/Windows builds, MIT. The Windows build compiles and libvaxis supports it, but I haven't smoke-tested it on real hardware yet. There's an about screen with a spinning ASCII donut, because why not.

Install: `brew install simoarpe/ziggity/ziggity`, or grab a static binary from the releases page.

Repo: https://github.com/simoarpe/ziggity

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the UX and on the Zig code if you're into that. It's a spare time project, so bug reports and "this feels wrong" notes are welcome.

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jddj  1 day ago

I can't really tell why this comment got flagged, so I've vouched it.

Maybe I've missed some context

  • projektfu  1 day ago

    It's probably because of HN's anti-LLM filter. I don't know if submitters use LLMs to touch up their descriptions or if these descriptions often use LLM-like phrasing.

    • uproarchat  1 day ago

      If that's what happened, I wonder if the same filters exist for tools like Grammarly. Some people are English as a second language, and some people simply want to put the best foot forward and make the best first impression.

  • TheSorcerer  6 hours ago

    Thank you! I've used AI to fix my English as it's not my primary language and probably got flagged.