Where is the (rest of the) documentation?

[jefftemplon]

Hi,

Is there any documentation besides the keymaps? I saw this yesterday:

and went looking for what the v10 meant - couldn't find anything. I asked on Reddit and someone said that my guess was correct, the v meant that my local repository was behind the remote, and 10 was the number of commits behind. That's what I am looking for in documentation, an actual document (not animated image or youtube video) that is searchable.

[stefanhaller]

No, we don't have a manual. I guess the idea is to try and design the software in such a way that no manual is needed, since people wouldn't read it anyway. There will always be situations like the one you describe where this doesn't quite work out, of course.

However, I'm surprised that you see a v there, it should be a an arrow (↓); I think this would make it more self-explanatory. We print the arrow unconditionally, so I can only guess that you are using a font that doesn't contain it, and your terminal "helpfully" replaces it with the next best character. I've never seen this happen before. It also replaces the corners of the panel frames with + characters, which makes them look quite bad. Also, the green question marks next to the branch names should be checkmarks.

What font are you using? Can you try a different one to see if that makes those characters show up correctly? It might also have something to do with your locale settings though, but I'm not sure about that.

[jefftemplon]

Hi, I'm using a Monaco font, but I don't think that is the problem. The terminal is iTerm2 on MacOS, if I run lazygit natively on the Mac in an iTerm window with the same settings, I don't see the + signs. In another session with identical window (and font) settings, I ssh into a Linux box and run apptainer shell giving a debian image as argument, because the Linux distro on that box I ssh into is so old, I can't run a lazygit binary on it :) it's a lazygit instance running in this debian container that shows the + signs and v instead of arrow. I don't know much about Linux font installations, the container is pretty bare though.

[jefftemplon]

Hi,

The solution: the container was so bare, that en_US.UTF-8 was not supported. Adding that locale to the container yields corners without plus signs and an arrow instead of a v. Thanks for the pointer.