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Thanks! Yesterday evening I saw that I had a few new sponsors and was wondering where they had come from. So in the end something good came of it. The one time donations covered th…

That's exactly what I did! Though I would call it morbid curiosity. :P After initial setup it was smooth sailing. Other more reasonable setups would also have been smooth sailing, …

Thanks for the bug report. Fixed. The next release will come out in about two weeks.

> Transient UIs [...] could usually be replaced by just using a regular special-mode keymap in a custom buffer. For people who can look at a list of key bindings once and have them…

> The Magit experience is due to the use of the transient package for its UI. (I'm the author of Magit and Transient. (Though not the original author of Magit.)) The transient menu…

I've collected a list of projects that are inspired by Magit at https://github.com/magit/magit/wiki/Inspired-by-Magit . (And a list of other Git related tools at https://github.com…

For dramatic effect, my monitor turned off right after "By this point, distant galaxies and starts are receding so fast that their light has become undetectable."

When a breaking change is made on Emacs' development branch, whether intentionally or not, and some users voice concerns about that change, then the change isn't reverted the minut…

Magit stopped using the git-wip script ten years ago.

That's an issue with Transient, a dependency of Magit and also authored by me. It's complicated, but essentially the problem is that post-command-hook is not guaranteed to be run a…

Thanks to all the new, current and former supporters! I am a bit overwhelmed right now, but will try to provide some background information and answer some questions over the cours…

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It probably doesn't make much of a difference because Magit's stashing commands offer more flexibility that even after this addition is still missing from `git stash`. Stash creati…

My point is that I find it difficult to understand how someone can invest so much time/money improving their typing experience without realizing that such a keyboard is the way to …

I am somewhat confused by all the love for mechanical keyboards. Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that a good keyboard is a great investment and think that about 99.99% of all…

I usually try to leave the Magit praising to others in these threads but in this case I would have found it hard to resist. Glad others have already taken care of it. ;P

Let me rephrase that: Give those that already love your project more of the same instead of wasting time on making those who think your approach is fundamentally misguided slightly…

> So I wonder what marketing techniques they use to make people feel this way; the emotions are strong, and widely shared. It's easy. 1) Listen to the fans when they suggest a feat…

For those you understand Swiss German: Mani Matter – I han es Zündhölzli azündt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkGatIgXERI

Internally they are actually quite different. Hydra is much simpler, which has its benefits. Transient is much more flexible, which it has to pay for with complexity. There's value…

> For example, the magit maintainer responded rudely, aggressively, and discouragingly to recent PRs against magit. Stallman's absurd one- or two- sentence replies. I must reject t…

In my firefox it looks like four "a"s with a little rat sitting on top of the first of them.

Here are some articles that explain how (the original) Magit is different from other Git clients: * https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/the-magical-git-interface * https://emacsair.me/2…