lazygit

Lazygit puts a keyboard-driven interface on git inside your terminal: branches, commits, changed files and diffs on one screen, with single keys for what git makes painful. Stage a single line. Squash, fixup, drop or reorder commits without hand-editing a rebase TODO file. Amend an old commit, cherry-pick, bisect, undo. It's MIT licensed and free, with no paid tier and no account.

Nothing to host. Install it with Homebrew, apt, Scoop, winget or most other package managers, then run lazygit in a repo. It works on macOS, Linux and Windows, and the mouse works too. Merge conflicts get their own view where you pick a hunk, or both, then move to the next. The October 0.66 release moved line staging into the main diff view and added push and pull for stacked branches. Solo, small teams, big teams: free, and the rollout is telling people it exists.

The catch: you trade memorized git commands for memorized lazygit keys, and when a keypress does something surprising you still need enough git to recover. Undo only covers commits and branches, not your working tree or stash. Want a mouse-first desktop app? GitKraken, Fork or Tower. Another terminal option? GitUI or tig.