Video Tools for a friendlier Git

Last updated: January 4, 2023

In the last lesson, you learnt how to explore your Git history. In this lesson, I'd like to show you two great open-source tools which allow to do so in a nice visual manner while remaining in the command line.

fzf

fzf is a fantastic multi-platform command line fuzzy finder with a huge versatility.
If you want to try it out, follow the installation instructions in the README and start playing with it.

In this video, I demo quickly how it can be used with Git:

lazygit

lazygit is an excellent multi-platform user interface for Git which works in the command line.
The README provides installation instructions.

Here is a very short demo:

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