article: lazygit rich terminal Git client

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Article introducing lazygit and covering the most useful commands and workflow

Rational

• fast, especially on large amount of changes
• free
• keyboard driven
• relatively simple to use once key bindings are learned (not completely intuitive though)
• minimal use of resources
• can use external tools
  • C to use editor for commit messages
  • ... to use a diff editor

Commonly used tasks / keys

• tab, [, ] or hjkl navigation
• space stage current file
• C to write commit message in EDITOR e.g. Emacs, Neovim
  • Z Z to exit Neovim / Emacs(Spacemacs)
• Enter stage current hunk or v visually selected lines
• P push changes

Follow-on task

Add extensive guide to Practicalli Engineering Playbook

References

• https://oliverguenther.de/2021/04/lazygit-the-files-panel/