Default path for the config file:
- Linux:
~/.config/lazygit/config.yml
- MacOS:
~/Library/Application Support/lazygit/config.yml
- Windows:
%APPDATA%\lazygit\config.yml
For old installations (slightly embarrassing: I didn't realise at the time that you didn't need to supply a vendor name to the path so I just used my name):
- Linux:
~/.config/jesseduffield/lazygit/config.yml
- MacOS:
~/Library/Application\ Support/jesseduffield/lazygit/config.yml
- Windows:
%APPDATA%\jesseduffield\lazygit\config.yml
If you want to change the config directory:
- MacOS:
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
gui:
# stuff relating to the UI
windowSize: 'normal' # one of 'normal' | 'half' | 'full' default is 'normal'
scrollHeight: 2 # how many lines you scroll by
scrollPastBottom: true # enable scrolling past the bottom
sidePanelWidth: 0.3333 # number from 0 to 1
expandFocusedSidePanel: false
mainPanelSplitMode: 'flexible' # one of 'horizontal' | 'flexible' | 'vertical'
language: 'auto' # one of 'auto' | 'en' | 'zh' | 'pl' | 'nl' | 'ja' | 'ko'
timeFormat: '02 Jan 06' # https://pkg.go.dev/time#Time.Format
shortTimeFormat: '3:04PM'
theme:
activeBorderColor:
- green
- bold
inactiveBorderColor:
- white
optionsTextColor:
- blue
selectedLineBgColor:
- blue # set to `default` to have no background colour
selectedRangeBgColor:
- blue
cherryPickedCommitBgColor:
- cyan
cherryPickedCommitFgColor:
- blue
unstagedChangesColor:
- red
defaultFgColor:
- default
commitLength:
show: true
mouseEvents: true
skipUnstageLineWarning: false
skipStashWarning: false
showFileTree: true # for rendering changes files in a tree format
showListFooter: true # for seeing the '5 of 20' message in list panels
showRandomTip: true
showBranchCommitHash: false # show commit hashes alongside branch names
experimentalShowBranchHeads: false # visualize branch heads with (*) in commits list
showBottomLine: true # for hiding the bottom information line (unless it has important information to tell you)
showCommandLog: true
showIcons: false
commandLogSize: 8
splitDiff: 'auto' # one of 'auto' | 'always'
skipRewordInEditorWarning: false # for skipping the confirmation before launching the reword editor
border: 'single' # one of 'single' | 'double' | 'rounded' | 'hidden'
git:
paging:
colorArg: always
useConfig: false
commit:
signOff: false
verbose: default # one of 'default' | 'always' | 'never'
merging:
# only applicable to unix users
manualCommit: false
# extra args passed to `git merge`, e.g. --no-ff
args: ''
log:
# one of date-order, author-date-order, topo-order or default.
# topo-order makes it easier to read the git log graph, but commits may not
# appear chronologically. See https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#_commit_ordering
order: 'topo-order'
# one of always, never, when-maximised
# this determines whether the git graph is rendered in the commits panel
showGraph: 'when-maximised'
# displays the whole git graph by default in the commits panel (equivalent to passing the `--all` argument to `git log`)
showWholeGraph: false
skipHookPrefix: WIP
# The main branches. We colour commits green if they belong to one of these branches,
# so that you can easily see which commits are unique to your branch (coloured in yellow)
mainBranches: [master, main]
autoFetch: true
autoRefresh: true
fetchAll: true # Pass --all flag when running git fetch. Set to false to fetch only origin (or the current branch's upstream remote if there is one)
branchLogCmd: 'git log --graph --color=always --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative --pretty=medium {{branchName}} --'
allBranchesLogCmd: 'git log --graph --all --color=always --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative --pretty=medium'
overrideGpg: false # prevents lazygit from spawning a separate process when using GPG
disableForcePushing: false
parseEmoji: false
diffContextSize: 3 # how many lines of context are shown around a change in diffs
os:
editPreset: '' # see 'Configuring File Editing' section
edit: ''
editAtLine: ''
editAtLineAndWait: ''
open: ''
openLink: ''
refresher:
refreshInterval: 10 # File/submodule refresh interval in seconds. Auto-refresh can be disabled via option 'git.autoRefresh'.
fetchInterval: 60 # Re-fetch interval in seconds. Auto-fetch can be disabled via option 'git.autoFetch'.
update:
method: prompt # can be: prompt | background | never
days: 14 # how often an update is checked for
confirmOnQuit: false
# determines whether hitting 'esc' will quit the application when there is nothing to cancel/close
quitOnTopLevelReturn: false
disableStartupPopups: false
notARepository: 'prompt' # one of: 'prompt' | 'create' | 'skip' | 'quit'
promptToReturnFromSubprocess: true # display confirmation when subprocess terminates
keybinding:
universal:
quit: 'q'
quit-alt1: '<c-c>' # alternative/alias of quit
return: '<esc>' # return to previous menu, will quit if there's nowhere to return
quitWithoutChangingDirectory: 'Q'
togglePanel: '<tab>' # goto the next panel
prevItem: '<up>' # go one line up
nextItem: '<down>' # go one line down
prevItem-alt: 'k' # go one line up
nextItem-alt: 'j' # go one line down
prevPage: ',' # go to next page in list
nextPage: '.' # go to previous page in list
gotoTop: '<' # go to top of list
gotoBottom: '>' # go to bottom of list
scrollLeft: 'H' # scroll left within list view
scrollRight: 'L' # scroll right within list view
prevBlock: '<left>' # goto the previous block / panel
nextBlock: '<right>' # goto the next block / panel
prevBlock-alt: 'h' # goto the previous block / panel
nextBlock-alt: 'l' # goto the next block / panel
jumpToBlock: ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5'] # goto the Nth block / panel
nextMatch: 'n'
prevMatch: 'N'
optionMenu: null # show help menu
optionMenu-alt1: '?' # show help menu
select: '<space>'
goInto: '<enter>'
openRecentRepos: '<c-r>'
confirm: '<enter>'
remove: 'd'
new: 'n'
edit: 'e'
openFile: 'o'
scrollUpMain: '<pgup>' # main panel scroll up
scrollDownMain: '<pgdown>' # main panel scroll down
scrollUpMain-alt1: 'K' # main panel scroll up
scrollDownMain-alt1: 'J' # main panel scroll down
scrollUpMain-alt2: '<c-u>' # main panel scroll up
scrollDownMain-alt2: '<c-d>' # main panel scroll down
executeCustomCommand: ':'
createRebaseOptionsMenu: 'm'
pushFiles: 'P'
pullFiles: 'p'
refresh: 'R'
createPatchOptionsMenu: '<c-p>'
nextTab: ']'
prevTab: '['
nextScreenMode: '+'
prevScreenMode: '_'
undo: 'z'
redo: '<c-z>'
filteringMenu: '<c-s>'
diffingMenu: 'W'
diffingMenu-alt: '<c-e>' # deprecated
copyToClipboard: '<c-o>'
submitEditorText: '<enter>'
extrasMenu: '@'
toggleWhitespaceInDiffView: '<c-w>'
increaseContextInDiffView: '}'
decreaseContextInDiffView: '{'
status:
checkForUpdate: 'u'
recentRepos: '<enter>'
files:
commitChanges: 'c'
commitChangesWithoutHook: 'w' # commit changes without pre-commit hook
amendLastCommit: 'A'
commitChangesWithEditor: 'C'
ignoreFile: 'i'
refreshFiles: 'r'
stashAllChanges: 's'
viewStashOptions: 'S'
toggleStagedAll: 'a' # stage/unstage all
viewResetOptions: 'D'
fetch: 'f'
toggleTreeView: '`'
openMergeTool: 'M'
openStatusFilter: '<c-b>'
branches:
createPullRequest: 'o'
viewPullRequestOptions: 'O'
checkoutBranchByName: 'c'
forceCheckoutBranch: 'F'
rebaseBranch: 'r'
renameBranch: 'R'
mergeIntoCurrentBranch: 'M'
viewGitFlowOptions: 'i'
fastForward: 'f' # fast-forward this branch from its upstream
createTag: 'T'
pushTag: 'P'
setUpstream: 'u' # set as upstream of checked-out branch
fetchRemote: 'f'
commits:
squashDown: 's'
renameCommit: 'r'
renameCommitWithEditor: 'R'
viewResetOptions: 'g'
markCommitAsFixup: 'f'
createFixupCommit: 'F' # create fixup commit for this commit
squashAboveCommits: 'S'
moveDownCommit: '<c-j>' # move commit down one
moveUpCommit: '<c-k>' # move commit up one
amendToCommit: 'A'
pickCommit: 'p' # pick commit (when mid-rebase)
revertCommit: 't'
cherryPickCopy: 'c'
cherryPickCopyRange: 'C'
pasteCommits: 'v'
tagCommit: 'T'
checkoutCommit: '<space>'
resetCherryPick: '<c-R>'
copyCommitMessageToClipboard: '<c-y>'
openLogMenu: '<c-l>'
viewBisectOptions: 'b'
stash:
popStash: 'g'
renameStash: 'r'
commitFiles:
checkoutCommitFile: 'c'
main:
toggleDragSelect: 'v'
toggleDragSelect-alt: 'V'
toggleSelectHunk: 'a'
pickBothHunks: 'b'
submodules:
init: 'i'
update: 'u'
bulkMenu: 'b'
os:
open: 'start "" {{filename}}'
os:
open: 'xdg-open {{filename}} >/dev/null'
os:
open: 'open {{filename}}'
There are two commands for opening files, o
for "open" and e
for "edit". o
acts as if the file was double-clicked in the Finder/Explorer, so it also works
for non-text files, whereas e
opens the file in an editor. e
can also jump
to the right line in the file if you invoke it from the staging panel, for
example.
To tell lazygit which editor to use for the e
command, the easiest way to do
that is to provide an editPreset config, e.g.
os:
editPreset: 'vscode'
Supported presets are vim
, nvim
, emacs
, nano
, vscode
, sublime
, bbedit
,
kakoune
, helix
, and xcode
. In many cases lazygit will be able to guess the right preset
from your $(git config core.editor), or an environment variable such as $VISUAL or $EDITOR.
If for some reason you are not happy with the default commands from a preset, or
there simply is no preset for your editor, you can customize the commands by
setting the edit
, editAtLine
, and editAtLineAndWait
options, e.g.:
os:
edit: 'myeditor {{filename}}'
editAtLine: 'myeditor --line={{line}} {{filename}}'
editAtLineAndWait: 'myeditor --block --line={{line}} {{filename}}'
editInTerminal: true
The editInTerminal
option is used to decide whether lazygit needs to suspend
itself to the background before calling the editor.
Contributions of new editor presets are welcome; see the getPreset
function in
editor_presets.go
.
To override the default config directory, use CONFIG_DIR="$HOME/.config/lazygit"
. This directory contains the config file in addition to some other files lazygit uses to keep track of state across sessions.
To override the individual config file used, use the --use-config-file
arg or the LG_CONFIG_FILE
env var.
If you want to merge a specific config file into a more general config file, perhaps for the sake of setting some theme-specific options, you can supply a list of comma-separated config file paths, like so:
lazygit --use-config-file="$HOME/.base_lg_conf,$HOME/.light_theme_lg_conf"
or
LG_CONFIG_FILE="$HOME/.base_lg_conf,$HOME/.light_theme_lg_conf" lazygit
For color attributes you can choose an array of attributes (with max one color attribute) The available attributes are:
Colors
- black
- red
- green
- yellow
- blue
- magenta
- cyan
- white
- '#ff00ff'
Modifiers
- bold
- default
- reverse # useful for high-contrast
- underline
- strikethrough
If you don't like the default behaviour of highlighting the selected line with a blue background, you can use the selectedLineBgColor
and selectedRangeBgColor
keys to customise the behaviour. If you just want to embolden the selected line (this was the original default), you can do the following:
gui:
theme:
selectedLineBgColor:
- default
selectedRangeBgColor:
- default
You can also use the reverse attribute like so:
gui:
theme:
selectedLineBgColor:
- reverse
selectedRangeBgColor:
- reverse
Lazygit will assign a random color for every commit author in the commits pane by default.
You can customize the color in case you're not happy with the randomly assigned one:
gui:
authorColors:
'John Smith': 'red' # use red for John Smith
'Alan Smithee': '#00ff00' # use green for Alan Smithee
You can use wildcard to set a unified color in case your are lazy to customize the color for every author or you just want a single color for all/other authors:
gui:
authorColors:
# use red for John Smith
'John Smith': 'red'
# use blue for other authors
'*': '#0000ff'
You can customize the color of branches based on the branch prefix:
gui:
branchColors:
'docs': '#11aaff' # use a light blue for branches beginning with 'docs/'
If you are using Nerd Fonts, you can display icons.
gui:
showIcons: true
For all possible keybinding options, check Custom_Keybindings.md
You can disable certain key bindings by specifying null
.
keybinding:
universal:
edit: null # disable 'edit file'
keybinding:
universal:
prevItem-alt: 'u'
nextItem-alt: 'e'
prevBlock-alt: 'n'
nextBlock-alt: 'i'
nextMatch: '='
prevMatch: '-'
new: 'k'
edit: 'o'
openFile: 'O'
scrollUpMain-alt1: 'U'
scrollDownMain-alt1: 'E'
scrollUpMain-alt2: '<c-u>'
scrollDownMain-alt2: '<c-e>'
undo: 'l'
redo: '<c-r>'
diffingMenu: 'M'
filteringMenu: '<c-f>'
files:
ignoreFile: 'I'
commits:
moveDownCommit: '<c-e>'
moveUpCommit: '<c-u>'
branches:
viewGitFlowOptions: 'I'
setUpstream: 'U'
Some git provider setups (e.g. on-premises GitLab) can have distinct URLs for git-related calls and
the web interface/API itself. To work with those, Lazygit needs to know where it needs to create
the pull request. You can do so on your config.yml
file using the following syntax:
services:
'<gitDomain>': '<provider>:<webDomain>'
Where:
gitDomain
stands for the domain used by git itself (i.e. the one present on clone URLs), e.g.git.work.com
provider
is one ofgithub
,bitbucket
,bitbucketServer
,azuredevops
,gitlab
orgitea
webDomain
is the URL where your git service exposes a web interface and APIs, e.g.gitservice.work.com
In situations where certain naming pattern is used for branches and commits, pattern can be used to populate commit message with prefix that is parsed from the branch name.
Example:
- Branch name: feature/AB-123
- Commit message: [AB-123] Adding feature
git:
commitPrefixes:
my_project: # This is repository folder name
pattern: "^\\w+\\/(\\w+-\\w+).*"
replace: '[$1] '
You can override the git log
command that's used to render the log of the selected branch like so:
git:
branchLogCmd: "git log --graph --color=always --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative --pretty=medium --oneline {{branchName}} --"
Result:
By default, when launching lazygit from a directory that is not a repository, you will be prompted to choose if you would like to initialize a repo. You can override this behaviour in the config with one of the following:
# for default prompting behaviour
notARepository: 'prompt'
# to skip and initialize a new repo
notARepository: 'create'
# to skip without creating a new repo
notARepository: 'skip'
# to exit immediately if run outside of the Git repository
notARepository: 'quit'