Do you read diffs before committing? If no, maybe because it’s not a great experience reading plain diff in terminal? Delta makes diffs more readable as it does in the “Staged changes” window in this screensot:

I use delta in LazyGit (the rest of the git related stuff in the screenshot). Two separate programs doing different things “mixed” together. LazyGit is a TUI wrapper on git. It shows changed files, whether they are staged or not (as in the “Files” window in this screenshot), worktrees, branches and the diff, helps with staging/unstaging by hunks, merging, rebasing, etc. By default LazyGit displays plain git diff. You can configure git to use Delta as diff pager. This way both LazyGit and the “git diff” command use Delta to display the diff.

Furthermore I use lazygit inside NeoVim. When I want to commit and push changes I open lazygit with “gl”, check the diff, fix things if necessary, stage files, commit and push from LazyGit.

NeoVim developers don’t have to worry about git support. When git support (or something else) is broken, other IDEs can give the priority to other things and delay the fix. NeoVim cares only about editing the text. LazyGit and Delta are separate projects, they don’t stop each other.

Furthermore in NeoVim world there are a lot of great plugins making git easier.

A lot of the times you have to jump from one changed file to another to do modifications. FzfLua - a generic fuzzy matcher - makes this process very easy. You can fuzzy-find the changed git files, open the necessary one or add all of them to quickfix list and review them one by one: It also helps fuzzy-navigating git worktrees:

Then comes GitSigns. It helps to see the status of each line (appended, removed, changed), quickly view the diff of the current hunk, navigate between hunks, undo hunks, stage/unstage hunks, etc:

Both FzfLua and LazyGit use Delta to display the diff. They don’t have to worry about making the diff readable - there’s already a good software which does it and does it well, so they just use it.

Then there’s another NeoVim plugin - DiffView - which helps working with diffs and merge conflicts, viewing individual file git history and much more:

🔥🔥 Using NeoVim is an awesome experience 🔥🔥