Lazygit hanging due to Commitizen

[jaredmcateer]

A bunch of repos in our org have prepare-commit-msg hooks (via husky) that enforce conventional commits via commitizen, whenever this is triggered LazyGit will hang. This is sort of fixed by using Shift+c when committing but is still broken on rebase & merge actions.

I end up having to kill the process and then fix it in via command line. I'm often in vim when this happens so it also creates a mess of my workspace if I have unsaved files open. It's driving me bonkers.

Right now I have a custom command for merging

customCommands:
  - key: "m"
    context: "localBranches"
    command: "HUSKY=0 git merge --no-edit --ff {{.SelectedLocalBranch.Name}}"
    description: "Merge without husky"

I'd rather not have to override a repos hook rules as there can be other things its doing that I still want to run (lint, tests, etc). Additionally I don't get the other merge options unless I manually rewrite all the menus for merge/rebase. Before I do so is there a way to make LazyGit and CZ play nice with each other?

[stefanhaller]

I don't think there's much you can do besides the workarounds you mentioned.

Personally I think it's a very bad idea for a pre-commit hook or prepare-commit-msg hook to assume that it runs in a terminal and can request input from the user. That's just not what a git hook is supposed to do. I wonder how other GUI clients cope with this (e.g. Fork, Tower, any of the many others out there). Have you tried any of these?

[jaredmcateer]

Unfortunately commitizen is a fairly popular tool in JS/Node based projects and it recommends adding it to the prepare-commit-msg (https://www.npmjs.com/package/commitizen#traditional-git-hooks). I only have say over a couple repos out of dozens so best I can do is recommend is recommending switching to package.json scripts for cz.

I've not tried other tools mentioned, I develop primarily on Linux and those are for Windows/Mac. Lazygit kind of knocked it out of the park for me on account of being universally supported, a TUI and it was conveniently already integrated in my vim distro of choice, LazyVim. I've not tried other clients, I'd rather not I'm comfortable with this tool, so I will probably just work around the issue, was just hoping there was a better way.