lazygit

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with lazygit, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Git actions keep switching to a prompt asking the user to press a key to return2026-07-21
Can't freely select terminal text with the mouse to copy branch names2025-11-11
Slow on big repos, freezes IDE while commands run with no spinner2025-11-11
Side panel state sometimes wrong, and delete-after-apply option sometimes forgotten on stash pop2025-11-10
Basic tasks are impossible without the manual; requires memorizing commands and shortcuts2025-11-10
Typing a message while the TUI is focused can accidentally trigger many hard-to-reverse actions2024-05-06
The ']' shortcut isn't shown in the bottom shortcuts row, so users can't discover it2023-08-05
Diff viewer is hard to understand and navigate2022-11-22
Startup became several seconds long, making it unusable for daily work2022-03-17