All I want is a good TUI git log viewer. I'm perfectly happy to do all the operations on the command line, but navigating the log works well interactively (e.g. start as --first-parent, with single line entries and then be able to selectively show branch commits, and patches for commits).

I end up with a log view and then copy and paste commit hashes to do different things. Or use Sublime Merge which is great, but doesn't work over SSH.

Not a great solution, but install emacs and then magit. A bit of a learning curve but works great.

I love Emacs and magit and use them myself but this advice seems a little bit like telling someone looking to buy an airline ticket that the best way to get from coast to coast is to become a pilot

It's true that the juice may be worth the squeeze for some, but "a bit of a learning curve" undersells it a little bit, I fear LOL

That’s a strange parallel to make. It’s not Linux from Scratch. The basic can be taught in 5 minutes. Enough for the requested task.

I was curious if tig(1) could do such a navigation. But I didn’t find anything.

tig seem pretty close. Does everything except toggling "first-parent". I might implement that bit.

I don’t understand? It accepts all git-log(1) etc. arguments. `git --first-parent` for example. But I don’t see how to navigate from a merge commit to the second parent or something.

Yes, I've just discovered that in parallel. All I need for perfection is to be able to enable/disable that in the view dynamically (and the cursor stay in the same place).

But what's there is actually useful and I've installed tig properly now.

Bloody love lazygit!

No other TUI for git is comparable to it.

lazygit is as necessary in my life as Vim. Absolutely incredible tool!

Fucking love lazygit