jesseduffield/lazygit

simple terminal UI for git commands

83.2k stars · 3.1k forks · Go

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 100% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.)

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 364
Human commits, 90 days: 757
Human commits, 365 days: 1.6k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 1%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (23 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (23 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 1
Last release: Oct 11, 2026 (3 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 13 hours

Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 69% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 3 hours.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 495 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 360

Top committers

stefanhaller: 100% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Aug 4, 2018 to Sep 11, 2018: about 8.9k more stars than usual, peak 1.8k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 31, 2019 to Apr 4, 2019: about 204 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 30, 2019 to Jul 11, 2019: about 359 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 23, 2019 to Aug 24, 2019: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 25, 2020 to Feb 28, 2020: about 282 more stars than usual, peak 199 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 31, 2021 to Apr 2, 2021: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 30 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 24, 2021 to Dec 10, 2021: about 2.3k more stars than usual, peak 629 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Mar 24, 2022 to Mar 25, 2022: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 3, 2023 to May 5, 2023: about 246 more stars than usual, peak 143 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 18, 2023 to Jul 25, 2023: about 751 more stars than usual, peak 421 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 22, 2024 to Jan 26, 2024: about 242 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 24, 2024 to Mar 28, 2024: about 313 more stars than usual, peak 200 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 25, 2024 to May 28, 2024: about 195 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 27, 2025 to Jan 29, 2025: about 121 more stars than usual, peak 96 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 7, 2025 to Aug 14, 2025: about 584 more stars than usual, peak 298 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 19, 2025 to Oct 21, 2025: about 194 more stars than usual, peak 141 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 3, 2025 to Nov 4, 2025: about 251 more stars than usual, peak 174 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

8 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit (GO): latest v0.66.1, published Oct 11, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: jesseduffield/lazygit, deps.dev: Go github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution

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