Git

Zed currently offers a set of fundamental Git features, with support coming in the future for more advanced ones, like conflict resolution tools, line by line staging, and more.

Here's an overview of all currently supported features:

• Committing
• Staging, pushing, pulling, and fetching
• Project Diff: A multibuffer view of all changes
• Diff indicators in buffers and editor scrollbars
• Inline diff toggle and reverts in the editor for unstaged changes
• Git status in the Project Panel
• Branch creating and switching
• Git blame viewing

Git Panel

The Git Panel gives you a birds-eye view of the state of your working tree and of Git's staging area.

You can open the Git Panel using git_panel: toggle focus, or by clicking the Git icon in the status bar.

In the panel you can see the state of your project at a glance—which repository and branch are active, what files have changed and the current staging state of each file.

Zed monitors your repository so that changes you make on the command line are instantly reflected.

Project Diff

You can see all of the changes captured by Git in Zed by opening the Project Diff (ctrl-g d|ctrl-g d), accessible via the git: diff action in the Command Palette or the Git Panel.

All of the changes displayed in the Project Diff behave exactly the same as any other multibuffer: they are all editable excerpts of files.

You can stage or unstage each hunk as well as a whole file by hitting the buttons on the tab bar or their corresponding keybindings.

Fetch, push, and pull

Fetch, push, or pull from your Git repository in Zed via the buttons available on the Git Panel or via the Command Palette by looking at the respective actions: git: fetch, git: push, and git: pull.

Staging Workflow

Zed has two primary staging workflows, using either the Project Diff or the panel directly.

Using the Project Diff

In the Project Diff view, you can focus on each hunk and stage them individually by clicking on the tab bar buttons or via the keybindings git: stage and next (cmd-y|alt-y).

Similarly, stage all hunks at the same time with the git: stage all (cmd-ctrl-y|ctrl-space) keybinding and then immediately commit with git: commit (cmd-enter|ctrl-enter).

Using the Git Panel

From the panel, you can simply type a commit message and hit the commit button, or git: commit. This will automatically stage all tracked files (indicated by a [·] in the entry's checkbox) and commit them.

Entries can be staged using each individual entry's checkbox. All changes can be staged using the button at the top of the panel, or git: stage all.

Committing

Zed offers two commit textareas:

1. The first one is available right at the bottom of the Git Panel. Hitting cmd-enter|ctrl-enter immediately commits all of your staged changes.
2. The second is available via the action git: expand commit editor or via hitting the shift-escape| while focused in the Git Panel commit textarea.

Undoing a Commit

As soon as you commit in Zed, in the Git Panel, you'll see a bar right under the commit textarea, which will show the recently submitted commit. In there, you can reach for the "Uncommit" button, which performs the git reset HEADˆ--soft command.

AI Support in Git

Zed currently supports LLM-powered commit message generation. You can ask AI to generate a commit message by focusing on the message editor within the Git Panel and either clicking on the pencil icon in the bottom left, or reaching for the git: generate commit message (alt-tab|alt-l) keybinding.

Note that you need to have an LLM provider configured. Visit the Assistant configuration page to learn how to do so.

More advanced AI integration with Git features may come in the future.

Git Integrations

Zed integrates with popular Git hosting services to ensure that Git commit hashes and references to Issues, Pull Requests, and Merge Requests become clickable links.

Zed currently supports links to the hosted versions of GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, SourceHut and Codeberg.

Zed also has a Copy Permalink feature to create a permanent link to a code snippet on your Git hosting service. These links are useful for sharing a specific line or range of lines in a file at a specific commit. Trigger this action via the Command Palette (search for permalink), by creating a custom key bindings to the editor::CopyPermalinkToLine or editor::OpenPermalinkToLine actions or by simply right clicking and selecting Copy Permalink with line(s) selected in your editor.

Action Reference

Not all actions have default keybindings, but can be bound by customizing your keymap.