lazygit 0.27.1-0.27.4 Release notes

Version 0.27 was quite ambitious so a few bugs were introduced. Lesson learnt, release features gradually! All the newly introduced bugs should now be fixed, except for https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/issues/1233 which looks to be a limitation of the new rendering library, tcell.

You can also now open 'git mergetool' by pressing shift+M in the files panel or merge panel.

Otherwise, these releases contained minor bug fixes and improvements.

lazygit 0.27 Release Notes

Holy Moly, this is a big one.

There are two big changes here:

1. Tree view for the files panel
2. New rendering library

File tree view

This is off by default, but can be configured via the 'gui.showFileTree' config key and toggled from within lazygit with the backtick key (the one below tilde).

Hitting enter on directories will toggle whether they are collapsed. Most keybindings that apply to files also apply to directories e.g. if you hit space on a directory, it will stage that whole directory.

When not in tree-mode, the merge conflicts are now bubbled up to the top of the list.

The tree view makes it much easier to deal with tonnes of files, because you can easily collapse folders you don't care about to focus on the important changes. It also reduces the amount of horizontal space used meaning there is less chance of content being truncated by the frame of the panel.

New rendering library

We've switched from the termbox package to tcell, with the help of the contributors of the awesome-gocui repo. This has many benefits:

• More support for various terminals
• 24 bit colour support (you can now drop the -24-bit-color=never arg if you're using delta)
• Support for more keybindings like... SHIFT-TAB! Which means you can now navigate the side panels with tab and shift-tab. (Previously pressing shift+tab would crash the program).
• Better support for switching to subprocesses. Most of that benefit

Other stuff:

• No more flickering e.g. when staging a file or when contents are refreshed
• You can now scroll the main panel with your mouse or pgup/pgdown. Before, doing so would move the cursor which was weird
• You can now insert a newline to the commit message panel via alt-enter. I've changed the default keybinding from to . Let me know if that makes you angry
• When you scroll the main view, it will now stop just shy of scrolling too far
• The gui no longer re-initialises when returning from a subprocess or switching repos
• By default, 'esc' no longer quits lazygit. Instead you'll need to use ctrl+c or 'q'. We use escape for exiting various modes in lazygit (e.g. cherry-picking) and it gets annoying when you accidentally hit esc one too many times and end up quitting. It's still configurable though
• Faster startup time
• Custom commands now run in your shell so you have more freedom to get freaky with it

Bug fixes:

• No more panicking when attemping to enter an unprintable key (thanks @fsmiamoto!)
• Rewording the topmost commit no longer commits staged files as well
• When returning from a submodule we retain the state of the parent repo so that you land back where you were in the submodules tab
• Fixed a bug in search where the cursor would get stuck if the result set shrunk
• Commands now retry if .git/index.lock exists
• Branches are no longer checked out when renamed
• Fixed issue with merge conflicts on windows where the wrong command was invoked causing a panic

Code-stuff:

• Lots of refactoring of the code itself. I'm considering a much bigger refactor but need to investigate whether the approach is a good idea
• Added a TUI for running/recording integration tests so that that whole workflow is easier
• Added over 40 new integration tests, so bugs will be caught sooner. As always, if you catch a bug, please raise an issue for it!