What makes lazygit better than the integrated Git tools of IDEs/editors?

[OfficialCRUGG]

So, I've recently seen a lot of people use lazygit and heard very well of it, but I've been wondering, what are its advantages over just using the integrated git tools of your IDE or editor (Visual Studio Code in my case)? Using Git, I need to make commits, choose what should be in them, push, pull, create and switch branches, and I can do all that right in my editor. What else is there that makes you use lazygit instead?

(To clarify: I'm genuinely just interested in everyone's reasoning to use lazygit, no negativity towards the project whatsoever)

[proudparrot2]

I use it alongside Zed, since it doesn't have a built-in version control UI

[baptisteArno]

Did you manage to make the edit redirect to zed? I tried setting EDITOR var to zed but it still opens up vim.

[mark2185]

@baptisteArno it should work, this PR adds zed as one of the possible editors.

[mark2185]

In my case it's vim so the choice is either vim-fugitive or lazygit and I opted out for a mix of both (fugitive is mostly for blaming and sending links to snippets of code).

lazygit shows the state of several things at once, without me having to specifically ask for it, e.g. the currently staged files/hunks, how far behind are my branches etc.

Out of the most "magical" features to me is the custom patch feature.

And generally lazygit is fun to use, cherry-picking commits to other branches, rewording them, reordering. Opening up a pull request from the branches panel, sending someone a link to a specific commit, filtering log by a specific file and many other things, these are just those that I mostly work with.

[KennethHoff]

I use JetBrains IDEs, which many say have one of the best integrations, but I consider it near-unusable; The various features like Interactive rebase and force push are disabled 19/20 times, so I just use the integration as a diff tool at this point.

[rakoo]

Not being tied to my editor is actually a plus for me. I like that the articulating point is the OS. The affordances of a text editor are not necessarily what is best for managing your commits, it's good that an independent tool exists