View summary of staged changes before commit

[ratorx]

A common operation for me in the CLI is to run a git diff --staged to get a concise summary of the entire set of staged changes before I commit. Is there an equivalent view in lazygit?

Basically, I want to diff view that shows up when browsing commits on the main screen, but for staged changes.

I've tried:

• Filtering files by "staged" - this is close, but is not concise (need to browse through all files) and will also include unstaged changes in a staged file
• Creating a commit first, checking the diff, then amending if necessary - this works, but is a pain to reason about if I need to remove e.g. specific lines from a file from the commit, and it also involves naming etc the commit first. I'd like something to show the diff before I make the commit.

More of a feature request, but I'd love if there was a "root" view in the files browser that would summarise all the changes in the entire repository, like what selecting a directory does.

[stefanhaller]

More of a feature request, but I'd love if there was a "root" view in the files browser that would summarise all the changes in the entire repository, like what selecting a directory does.

I like the idea. I made a rough draft of this here, can you test it and see if this is what you had in mind? See the PR description for what it does.

[ratorx]

Thanks, that’s definitely most of the way there!

The only thing I’m missing is the ability to load the staged changes view on the directory so that it is at least half the screen (or ideally the whole screen) when there are unstaged changes. Currently, it is impossible for staged/unstaged view on a directory to take up more than 1/4 of the screen (when the other one is present).

Unfortunately, I don’t see that being as elegant to include. At the minimum, there would have to be some new key bindings (perhaps to toggle the staged/unstaged views on/off?)