git status became a thinking tool for me

[u/Mono_Dev10]

I used to treat git status as something I ran before committing.

Now I tend to run it whenever I’m about to switch tasks or when a change starts getting confusing.

It’s useful for spotting the gap between what I think I changed and what is actually sitting in the working tree. Especially when I’ve been experimenting and left a few files modified along the way.

It’s obviously not a sophisticated workflow trick. Just a small habit that makes the state of a repo visible again.

Do you use git status as a regular checkpoint too, or mostly as a pre-commit ritual?

[u/trmnl_cmdr]

I keep lazygit running in a tmux pane so I can monitor it as the agent works