lazygit/docs/Custom_Command_Keybindings.md

Custom Command Keybindings

You can add custom command keybindings in your config.yml (accessible by pressing 'o' on the status panel from within lazygit) like so:

customCommands:
  - key: '<c-r>'
    context: 'commits'
    command: 'hub browse -- "commit/{{.SelectedLocalCommit.Sha}}"'
  - key: 'a'
    context: 'files'
    command: "git {{if .SelectedFile.HasUnstagedChanges}} add {{else}} reset {{end}} {{.SelectedFile.Name | quote}}"
    description: 'Toggle file staged'
  - key: 'C'
    context: 'global'
    command: "git commit"
    subprocess: true
  - key: 'n'
    context: 'localBranches'
    prompts:
      - type: 'menu'
        title: 'What kind of branch is it?'
        key: 'BranchType'
        options:
          - name: 'feature'
            description: 'a feature branch'
            value: 'feature'
          - name: 'hotfix'
            description: 'a hotfix branch'
            value: 'hotfix'
          - name: 'release'
            description: 'a release branch'
            value: 'release'
      - type: 'input'
        title: 'What is the new branch name?'
        key: 'BranchName'
        initialValue: ''
    command: "git flow {{.Form.BranchType}} start {{.Form.BranchName}}"
    loadingText: 'Creating branch'

Looking at the command assigned to the 'n' key, here's what the result looks like:

Custom command keybindings will appear alongside inbuilt keybindings when you view the keybindings menu by pressing '?':

For a given custom command, here are the allowed fields:

field	description	required
key	The key to trigger the command. Use a single letter or one of the values from here	yes
command	The command to run (using Go template syntax for placeholder values)	yes
context	The context in which to listen for the key (see below)	yes
subprocess	Whether you want the command to run in a subprocess (e.g. if the command requires user input)	no
prompts	A list of prompts that will request user input before running the final command	no
loadingText	Text to display while waiting for command to finish	no
description	Label for the custom command when displayed in the keybindings menu	no
stream	Whether you want to stream the command's output to the Command Log panel	no
showOutput	Whether you want to show the command's output in a popup within Lazygit	no
after	Actions to take after the command has completed	no

Here are the options for the after key:

field	description	required
checkForConflicts	true/false. If true, check for merge conflicts	no

Contexts

The permitted contexts are:

context	description
status	The 'Status' tab
files	The 'Files' tab
worktrees	The 'Worktrees' tab
localBranches	The 'Local Branches' tab
remotes	The 'Remotes' tab
remoteBranches	The context you get when pressing enter on a remote in the remotes tab
tags	The 'Tags' tab
commits	The 'Commits' tab
reflogCommits	The 'Reflog' tab
subCommits	The context you see when pressing enter on a branch
commitFiles	The context you see when pressing enter on a commit or stash entry (warning, might be renamed in future)
stash	The 'Stash' tab
global	This keybinding will take affect everywhere

Prompts

Common fields

These fields are applicable to all prompts.

field	description	required
type	One of 'input', 'confirm', 'menu', 'menuFromCommand'	yes
title	The title to display in the popup panel	no
key	Used to reference the entered value from within the custom command. E.g. a prompt with key: 'Branch' can be referred to as {{.Form.Branch}} in the command	yes

Input

field	description	required
initialValue	The initial value to appear in the text box	no
suggestions	Shows suggestions as the input is entered. See below for details	no

The permitted suggestions fields are:

field	description	required
preset	Uses built-in logic to obtain the suggestions. One of 'authors', 'branches', 'files', 'refs', 'remotes', 'remoteBranches', 'tags'	no
command	Command to run such that each line in the output becomes a suggestion. Mutually exclusive with 'preset' field.	no

Here's an example of passing a preset:

customCommands:
  - key: 'a'
    command: 'echo {{.Form.Branch | quote}}'
    context: 'commits'
    prompts:
      - type: 'input'
        title: 'Which branch?'
        key: 'Branch'
        suggestions:
          preset: 'branches' # use built-in logic for obtaining branches

Here's an example of passing a command directly:

customCommands:
  - key: 'a'
    command: 'echo {{.Form.Branch | quote}}'
    context: 'commits'
    prompts:
      - type: 'input'
        title: 'Which branch?'
        key: 'Branch'
        suggestions:
          command: "git branch --format='%(refname:short)'"

Here's an example of passing an initial value for the input:

customCommands:
  - key: 'a'
    command: 'echo {{.Form.Remote | quote}}'
    context: 'commits'
    prompts:
    - type: 'input'
      title: 'Remote:'
      key: 'Remote'
      initialValue: "{{.SelectedRemote.Name}}"

Confirm

field	description	required
body	The immutable body text to appear in the text box	no

Example:

customCommands:
  - key: 'a'
    command: 'echo "pushing to remote"'
    context: 'commits'
    prompts:
    - type: 'confirm'
      title: 'Push to remote'
      body: 'Are you sure you want to push to the remote?'

Menu

field	description	required
options	The options to display in the menu	yes

The permitted option fields are:

field	description	required
name	The first part of the label	no
description	The second part of the label	no
value	the value that will be used in the command	yes

If an option has no name the value will be displayed to the user in place of the name, so you're allowed to only include the value like so:

customCommands:
  - key: 'a'
    command: 'echo {{.Form.BranchType | quote}}'
    context: 'commits'
    prompts:
      - type: 'menu'
        title: 'What kind of branch is it?'
        key: 'BranchType'
        options:
          - value: 'feature'
          - value: 'hotfix'
          - value: 'release'

Here's an example of supplying more detail for each option:

customCommands:
  - key: 'a'
    command: 'echo {{.Form.BranchType | quote}}'
    context: 'commits'
    prompts:
      - type: 'menu'
        title: 'What kind of branch is it?'
        key: 'BranchType'
        options:
          - value: 'feature'
            name: 'feature branch'
            description: 'branch based off develop'
          - value: 'hotfix'
            name: 'hotfix branch'
            description: 'branch based off main for fast bug fixes'
          - value: 'release'
            name: 'release branch'
            description: 'branch for a release'

Menu-from-command

field	description	required
command	The command to run to generate menu options	yes
filter	The regexp to run specifying groups which are going to be kept from the command's output	no
valueFormat	How to format matched groups from the filter to construct a menu item's value	no
labelFormat	Like valueFormat but for the labels. If labelFormat is not specified, valueFormat is shown instead.	no

Here's an example using named groups in the regex. Notice how we can pipe the label to a colour function for coloured output (available colours here)

  - key : 'a'
    description: 'Checkout a remote branch as FETCH_HEAD'
    command: "git fetch {{.Form.Remote}} {{.Form.Branch}} && git checkout FETCH_HEAD"
    context: 'remotes'
    prompts:
      - type: 'menuFromCommand'
        title: 'Remote branch:'
        key: 'Branch'
        command: 'git branch  -r --list {{.SelectedRemote.Name }}/*'
        filter: '.*{{.SelectedRemote.Name }}/(?P<branch>.*)'
        valueFormat: '{{ .branch }}'
        labelFormat: '{{ .branch | green }}'

Here's an example using unnamed groups:

  - key : 'a'
    description: 'Checkout a remote branch as FETCH_HEAD'
    command: "git fetch {{.Form.Remote}} {{.Form.Branch}} && git checkout FETCH_HEAD"
    context: 'remotes'
    prompts:
      - type: 'menuFromCommand'
        title: 'Remote branch:'
        key: 'Branch'
        command: 'git branch  -r --list {{.SelectedRemote.Name }}/*'
        filter: '.*{{.SelectedRemote.Name }}/(.*)'
        valueFormat: '{{ .group_1 }}'
        labelFormat: '{{ .group_1 | green }}'

Here's an example using a command but not specifying anything else: so each line from the command becomes the value and label of the menu items

  - key : 'a'
    description: 'Checkout a remote branch as FETCH_HEAD'
    command: "open {{.Form.File | quote}}"
    context: 'global'
    prompts:
      - type: 'menuFromCommand'
        title: 'File:'
        key: 'File'
        command: 'ls'

Placeholder values

Your commands can contain placeholder strings using Go's template syntax. The template syntax is pretty powerful, letting you do things like conditionals if you want, but for the most part you'll simply want to be accessing the fields on the following objects:

SelectedLocalCommit
SelectedReflogCommit
SelectedSubCommit
SelectedFile
SelectedPath
SelectedLocalBranch
SelectedRemoteBranch
SelectedRemote
SelectedTag
SelectedStashEntry
SelectedCommitFile
SelectedWorktree
CheckedOutBranch

To see what fields are available on e.g. the SelectedFile, see here (all the modelling lives in the same directory). Note that the custom commands feature does not guarantee backwards compatibility (until we hit Lazygit version 1.0 of course) which means a field you're accessing on an object may no longer be available from one release to the next. Typically however, all you'll need is {{.SelectedFile.Name}}, {{.SelectedLocalCommit.Sha}} and {{.SelectedLocalBranch.Name}}. In the future we will likely introduce a tighter interface that exposes a limited set of fields for each model.

Keybinding collisions

If your custom keybinding collides with an inbuilt keybinding that is defined for the same context, only the custom keybinding will be executed. This also applies to the global context. However, one caveat is that if you have a custom keybinding defined on the global context for some key, and there is an in-built keybinding defined for the same key and for a specific context (say the 'files' context), then the in-built keybinding will take precedence. See how to change in-built keybindings here

Debugging

If you want to verify that your command actually does what you expect, you can wrap it in an 'echo' call and set showOutput: true so that it doesn't actually execute the command but you can see how the placeholders were resolved.

More Examples

See the wiki page for more examples, and feel free to add your own custom commands to this page so others can benefit!