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Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

73 points by TheSorcerer

by greggroth

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Neat project, but the README would benefit from a human author. I can tell what you prompted by the way the README is worded. It should tell me more about what this project solves. I don't care that it uses idiomatic zig. Why should I use this instead of lazygit?

by JacobAsmuth

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This is huge. I've always wanted to use Git in the terminal but never been happy with the underlying language that other TUIs were written in. Now that I know that I'm using developer-managed memory I can be much more comfortable and confident changing between branches, pushing, and pulling, and even merging code. Thanks Simone!

by dd_xplore

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I wonder when is the 900,000 lines single commit coming for Rust rewrite

by kvisner

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Very cool, but if I'm prompting / looping an AI agent as my main development process, what is the use case here? I feel the biggest help would be to make Reviewing PRs from the terminal easier, I care less about commit logs and status.

by robertheadley

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I know what these words mean, but if I didn't this would be a whole lot of nonsense.

by arikrahman

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Maybe can emphasize yourself and call it LazyZig or something with the lazy moniker.

by PrimalPower

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i've always found magit better than any opinionated git terminal UI. Including LazyGit.
With Claude, i find myself reaching for Magit even less.

by mayhemducks

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If Quagmire were in charge of naming things.

by alimbada

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I like the Zig+Git+TTY portmanteau.

by NamlchakKhandro

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Need to change the logo to one of a guy with a massive chin and a creepy stare.

by sashank_1509

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I’m such a CLANKER hater now, I want to know if this was written by agents or not. If written by agents, I don’t want anything to do with it. I only want human written software, even LLM autocomplete seems a bridge too far.

by colesantiago

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Honest feedback:
This is AI generated TUI slop made with claude.
I've been seeing a sad trend of these things being built with AI with no care and will be just abandoned in less than a month.
Why should I use this when I can use lazygit which is more popular and has been around and battle tested for years?

by hoppp

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I like it but the donut animation is not needed, overbuilding gives AI slop vibes
I would love to use it without gimmicks.

by icase

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i appreciate that it’s not more rust slop, but i never understood the need for a git frontend.

by TheSorcerer

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Hi HN, I've been building Ziggity, a keyboard-driven terminal UI for Git. It's inspired by lazygit (which I used daily), but written from scratch in Zig rather than being a port.
Why another one? Two reasons, honestly. There were a few areas of lazygit I wanted to improve on for my own workflow, and I wanted a real project to build in Zig, which is genuinely powerful and fast, and a joy once it clicks. It compiles to a single small static binary with explicit memory ownership and no libgit2, it just shells out to the `git` you already have. The UI is built on libvaxis. And I let myself add a bit of sugar along the way, because a tool you stare at all day might as well be pleasant.
A few things that are a bit different from lazygit: - A divergence view + status-coloured commit hashes so ahead/behind commits stand out at a glance - Independent drill-downs in the Branches/Commits panels (deliberate, not a port artifact) - Line level staging, interactive rebase, custom patch building, bisect, arbitrary-ref diffing
It's honest about its stage: v0.3.0, macOS/Linux/Windows builds, MIT. The Windows build compiles and libvaxis supports it, but I haven't smoke-tested it on real hardware yet. There's an about screen with a spinning ASCII donut, because why not.
Install: `brew install simoarpe/ziggity/ziggity`, or grab a static binary from the releases page.
Repo: https://github.com/simoarpe/ziggity
I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the UX and on the Zig code if you're into that. It's a spare time project, so bug reports and "this feels wrong" notes are welcome.

by eadesola

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by lnenad

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I actually made the same thing in Rust https://github.com/lnenad/difiko
Just FYI a large portion is vibecoded for those that don't like that.