Several interesting projects:
Have not tried them yet, but trying to get some less technical people using Git, so these may help.
Comparison of the three options:
The above article contains an interesting table that shows the differences between tools written in Rust (gitui), Go (lazygit), and C (tig):
While implementation matters as well as language, this probably represents what we typically see for binary size.
In my own testing, I like gitui pretty well. It seems like a nice replacement for git add --interactive where you can easily stage chunks of a file for commit. tig has a nice default view which shows all branch paths and merges – similar to gitk.
For new users, it seems gitui is the most intuitive because it does not require memorizing a bunch of keyboard shortcuts. I plan to try it over the next week in my own development and see how it goes.
It is interesting that the gitui binary (Rust) is completely static – from the name of the download binary, I assume it is statically linked to musl – looking at the CD config, that appears correct.
The Go binary likely could have also been made completely static if the build process had turned off CGO.
[cbrake@mars ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/lazygit
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff7bbd4000)
libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f962fe86000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f962fcbd000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f962fefd000)
[cbrake@mars ~]$ ldd /usr/local/bin/gitui
not a dynamic executable
[cbrake@mars ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/tig
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffe0dbd000)
libreadline.so.8 => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.8 (0x00007ff6114f3000)
libncursesw.so.6 => /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007ff611482000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff6112b9000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff611647000)
I kind of fizzled out on this until I recently integrated LazyVIM into my editor, which includes LazyGit integration. LazyGit is quite nice – very fast and quick to do things and keyboard shortcuts are fairly obvious. I’ve tried vim-fugitive, but it never quite clicked with me – always found myself reverting to Git command line. We’ll see if LazyGit is different …
LazyGit seems to be a more active project than GitUI.
Below is a screenshot:
Note, for this to work, you need to install LazyGit separately.
I’ve been using lazygit for a while now and its solid!
There have been some updates over the last 6 months which improved the keybindings and menu system as well.
