Lazygit/Q/What are the main keyboard shortcuts for lazygit?

• What are the main Lazygit/Keyshorts?

  • Especially for pulling from the remote, pushing to the remote, committing, and browsing recent repos.

• Answer

  • Lazygit/Keyshort/Commit

    • Keyshort Lazygit Lazygit/Keyshort
      • Commit Staged Changes Card
        • Shortcut: c
        • Description: Opens an inline message input for the staged changes. C opens the commit message in $EDITOR instead, which is what a multi-line body needs.
      • Reword the Last Commit Card
        • Shortcut: r in the Commits panel
        • Description: Edits the message of the selected commit inline; R opens it in $EDITOR. Works on any unpushed commit, not only HEAD.
      • My Note
        • Nothing is committed that was not staged first — see Lazygit/Keyshort/Stage.
        • Longer walkthrough of the reword path: Lazygit/Q/In lazygit, what's the right keyshort or set of keystrokes to edit the commit message of the most recent commit that's not pushed?
  • Lazygit/Keyshort/View Recent Repositories

    • Keyshort Lazygit Lazygit/Keyshort
      • Switch to a Recent Repository Card
        • Shortcut: <ctrl+r>
        • Description: Opens a list of recently visited repositories and rebinds the running lazygit session to the one chosen — no quitting, cd, and relaunching.
      • My Note
        • The cross-repo counterpart to [ / ], which cycle tabs within one repository.
        • Launched from LazyVim with <leader>gg, lazygit starts at the editor's git root, so this is the way out to a different repo without leaving the session — see LazyVim/Keyshort/Git.
  • Lazygit/Keyshort/Copy to clipboard

    • Keyshort Lazygit Lazygit/Keyshort
      • Open the Copy to Clipboard Modal #card
        • Shortcut: y
        • Description: Opens a Curses Modal with copy options.
      • Copy file name to clipboard #card
        • Shortcut: y then n (via modal), or <ctrl+o> directly (no modal)
          • Mnemonic: yank name
        • Description: Copies the file name to clipboard.
      • Copy relative path to clipboard #card
        • Shortcut: y then p
        • Description: Copies the relative path to clipboard.
      • Copy absolute path to clipboard #card
        • Shortcut: y then P
        • Description: Copies the absolute path to clipboard.
      • Copy diff of selected files to clipboard #card
        • Shortcut: y then s
        • Description: Copies the diffS of selected files to clipboard. Requires a selection.
        • Mnemonic: yank the selected files, yank diffs
      • Copy diff of all files to clipboard #card
        • Shortcut: y then a
        • Description: Copies the diff of all files to clipboard.
        • Mnemonic: yank all diffs