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jesseduffield/lazygit

This system is a terminal-based Git client (LazyGit) that provides a comprehensive interface for managing repositories, including branching, committing, rebasing, and merging. It features a modular, controller-based GUI architecture with support for multiple languages, themes, and automated keybinding documentation. The codebase includes extensive integration tests and tooling for development, testing, and release management.

61.4

Adequate · 6 August 2026

67k

lines of production code

Go

primary language

2

bus factor · 409 authors in all

3

measurements over time

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How it got here

2018–2020 · Architecture and feature expansion

This period focused on restructuring the codebase's architecture, particularly around the application entry point, command execution, and GUI types, while introducing significant new features such as internationalization, clipboard support, and automatic update checking. The work also involved extensive dependency updates, tooling additions, and the introduction of background task management and improved error handling.

36 changes

2021–2022 · GUI architecture and feature expansion

This period focused on refactoring the GUI into a modular controller-based architecture and introducing new interactive modes for diffing, filtering, and cherry-picking. The team also expanded the application's capabilities with Git Bisect, Blame, and a headless daemon mode, while significantly broadening integration test coverage.

57 changes

2023–2026 · Integration test expansion and UI stability

This period focused on significantly expanding integration test coverage across the application, including new tests for UI interactions, staging, undo operations, and various Git workflows. Concurrently, the codebase underwent major refactoring to improve concurrency safety in the terminal UI library and added features like direnv support and automated JSON schema generation.

31 changes

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  • The description of this project is derived from its own commit history, not from its README.
  • The score is its highest published measurement, taken on 6 August 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
  • Measured at commit bd76666d97 — the exact code this score is about.
  • Scored under rubric rubric-2026.08.19. Score the same commit under that rubric and you get the same number.
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