Lazygit/Keyshort/Stage

• Keyshort Lazygit Lazygit/Keyshort
  • Stage or Unstage the Selected File Card
    • Shortcut: <space>
    • Description: Toggles staged status for the file under the cursor in the Files panel. One key for both directions — pressing it on a staged file unstages it.
  • Stage or Unstage Everything Card
    • Shortcut: a
    • Description: Toggles staged/unstaged for every file in the working tree at once.
  • Stage Individual Lines or Hunks Card
    • Shortcut: <enter> on a file, then <space>
    • Description: Enters the staging view for that file, where <space> stages the selected hunk and v starts a line-wise selection to stage part of a hunk. The reason to reach for lazygit over git add when a file holds two unrelated changes.
  • My Note
    • This is the piece that keeps commits honest: git staging by hunk means an incidental fix does not have to ride along with the change it was found next to. Pairs with the targeted-git add habit in this garden's commit conventions.