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1 million Lazygit downloads, one embarrassment at a time

Lazygit has cracked one million downloads (as far as the badge on github reports) and so I figured I’d use this opportunity to pontificate about software engineering and… embarrassment. There is a world of difference between > and >>. The first one replaces a file, and the other merely appends to it. This distinction proved especially important when I launched Lazygit now seven years ago, when in the docs I told people to add an alias for Lazygit to their shell configuration file via echo "alias...

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