Overview of Panels

We will go over each of the left panels. Now is a good time to remember that you can press 1-5 to move focus to specific panels.

* - Each panel has many actions available. I’m only going to list the most notable ones. You can press ? to see all the actions available on the panel you are in.

1. Status §

The top-left most panel. This panel shows you the git repo you are in, the current branch, and the overall status of your repo.

• ↑ - number of commits ahead of remote

  • mnemonic: How many commits can I push up into the cloud above me?

• ↓ - number of commits behind remote

  • mnemonic: How many commits can I pull down from the cloud above me?

• #screenshot of panel 1 with commits ahead and behind

Actions* §

• e - edit lazygit configuration file
• ctrl+r - switch to a recent git repo

2. Files §

This panel is like git status in that it shows the modified files in your working directory.

It shows a list of files that have changes which have not yet been commited to the repo.

Legend §

• color - indicates the status of the file
  • red - unstaged
  • green - staged
• Status code
  • ? - untracked
  • ‘A’ - added
  • ‘M’ - modified
  • ‘D’ - deleted

Actions* §

This panel is useful for staging, unstaging, and committing files.

Default Action §

The default action (spacebar) will toggle the staged status of the file.

3. Local branches §

This panel shows you:

• * - (topmost line) the currently checked out branch
• the most recent branches
• the status (↑/↓) relative to the remote branch
• #screenshot of panel 3 with commits ahead and behind

Actions* §

This panel is useful for checking out branches.

Default Action §

The default action (spacebar) will checkout the branch. Panel “4. Commits” will change to show the commits on that branch.

Drill-down §

If you want to look at the commits on a branch, without checking it out, you can press enter to “drill-down” into the branch. The panel will change to show you the commits on that branch. If you “drill-down” into a commit, the panel will change to show you the files that were changed in that commit.

• #screenshot of panel 3 “drill-down”-ed into the commits. Show how this is different from panel 4.

4. Commits §

This panel shows the commits, for the currently checked out branch, with most recent first.

• #screenshot of panel 4

Actions* §

Default Action §

The default action (spacebar) will checkout the commit.

• #describe how the other panels react to this action

5. Stash §

This panel shows the stash stack, with most recent first.

• #screenshot of panel 5

Actions* §

Default Action §

The default action (spacebar) will apply the stash.

• #describe how the other panels react to this action