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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Learning git is very easy. For example, to do it on Debain, one simply needs to run, sudo apt install lazygit

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

LazyGit may actually be black magic from Satan to tempt programmers into sin. And to that I say: 'where is a goat I can sacrifice to my dark lord?'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wow this looks great. Amend an old commit dealing with a rebase? Sign me up!

[–] zalgotext 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

git rebase -i origin/main (or whatever branch you're rebasing on), then read the instructions that come up in the editor window

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Read… instructions? I love teaching people that git very often prints out what you should do next.

git: “to continue, resolve conflicts, add files, and run rebase —continue”
dev: …time to search stack overflow

All that said… just use lazygit. It does help to know CLI git first to put things in context, but if you do, no need to punish yourself every day by not using a UI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'd still probably prefer the usual CLI for setup, commits, pushes etc. but this looks like a godsend for any branching/rebasing operations!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The ease with which I can only commit separate hunks with lazygit has ensured I use it for commits, too. And once I've opened it to do the commit, I may as well also press P.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is this what people who haven't been introduced to #magit use?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Never tried magit, but it doesn't matter. It couldn't possibly be good enough to be worth using an inferior editor.