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Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

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Re: Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

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Post by agumonkey »

wodenokoto wrote: post #58
jwr wrote: post #43

Magit is such an unbelievably good piece of software. If you haven't used it, please at least take a look. It seems like "just a GUI for git", but that's missing the point — many operations suddenly become frictionless, so your entire workflow changes. I regularly do things like "stash some of my changes, switch branch, cherry pick a commit, switch branch, do an interactive rebase reordering commits and dropping one,…

Can I like magit if I don’t like emacs?

I believe magit underlying ideas are good no matter what software you use, it's not an emacs only principle.

It's just keyboard oriented, text-light interaction design if you will.

invoke versionning (key 1), see what's changed, pick the parts you like (few navigations keys and 2 keys to pick/unpick), invoke commit (key 4) write and accept (key 5) (amend is key 6 if you made a mistake)

It's just fast, lean and tailored. Apparently people did it in vi too. I just wish it was the case in more places. Actually, whenever I write a vuejs thing, I try to embed keyboard as much as possible.

Re: Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

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jrockway wrote: post #154

I've never seen the upside. I use Emacs as my primary editor, and I regret it every time I say "today is the day I start using Magit". It is exceedingly invasive, triggering itself even when you don't ask for it (like running "git rebase -i" on the command line). The invasive stuff changes how the text editing itself works, but doesn't add deep features. In the interactive rebase case, I lose the ability to treat the…

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Re: Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

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Post by anamexis »

auslegung wrote: post #147

I love magit, I’ve been using it for a year, which is as long as I’ve been using Emacs. But can someone please tell me how to pronounce magit? If I try to make it sound like magic, I pronounce it the same way as maggot, which seems wrong. If I put the emphasis on the second syllable so that it’s emphasizing git, that also feels weird.

https://magit.vc/manual/magit/How-to-pronounce-Magit_003f.ht...

Re: Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

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Post by jeremyjh »

jrockway wrote: post #154

I've never seen the upside. I use Emacs as my primary editor, and I regret it every time I say "today is the day I start using Magit". It is exceedingly invasive, triggering itself even when you don't ask for it (like running "git rebase -i" on the command line). The invasive stuff changes how the text editing itself works, but doesn't add deep features. In the interactive rebase case, I lose the ability to treat the…

I like magit because it stays very true to Git's native theory of operations and is much quicker. I'm an evil/Spacemacs user and the bindings make sense to me. Marketing has nothing to do with it.

Re: Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

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Post by leephillips »

wongarsu wrote: post #179
leephillips wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This creates a new commit that reverses the changes of a past commit. That’s different from undoing your last commit, as in, you made a commit but then changed your mind, and want, say to make some more changes before you commit. (Explained in man git-revert.)

> Explained in man git-revert If git at least had good man pages. The man-page's description is "Given one or more existing commits, revert the changes that the related patches introduce, and record some new commits that record them." [1] I have a hard time parsing that to mean what it's supposed to mean. It contains a note that's much better at explaining what git revert does, then goes on to explain alternatives fo…

“ I have a hard time parsing that to mean what it's supposed to mean.”

Can’t disagree. That part could certainly be written better. I’m not saying I would want to learn Git from the man pages, but they’re pretty good in general after learning it elsewhere.

Re: Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

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Post by massysett »

jrockway wrote: post #154

I've never seen the upside. I use Emacs as my primary editor, and I regret it every time I say "today is the day I start using Magit". It is exceedingly invasive, triggering itself even when you don't ask for it (like running "git rebase -i" on the command line). The invasive stuff changes how the text editing itself works, but doesn't add deep features. In the interactive rebase case, I lose the ability to treat the…

Some tools inspire reactions like this. Nix and NixOS also fall in this camp. The small number of people who love them write blog posts and comments evangelizing them. The much larger number of people who find no use for these tools, or who tried them and do not like them, do not find it worth the energy to write something about why they did not like the tool or why they just never bother to try it. Even if they did write something, it wouldn't get upvotes - "I tried this Magit thing, and it's supposed to be better than vanilla git, but really it isn't, so I keep using vanilla git," is just not an interesting blog post.

So yes, most Git users are just like you and see no upside to Magit. Call it the silent majority.

Re: Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

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Post by [deleted] »

jrockway wrote: post #154

I've never seen the upside. I use Emacs as my primary editor, and I regret it every time I say "today is the day I start using Magit". It is exceedingly invasive, triggering itself even when you don't ask for it (like running "git rebase -i" on the command line). The invasive stuff changes how the text editing itself works, but doesn't add deep features. In the interactive rebase case, I lose the ability to treat the…

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Re: Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

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Post by jeremyjh »

kahole wrote: post #21
submeta wrote: post #9

Magit is an exceptionally well made interface to Git. Yes, it’s built on top of Emacs, and that might stop many from even looking into it. - I am glad I made a deep dive into Emacs last year, and although I stopped using it as an IDE (VS Code is just too good), I still come back to it because of Magit (and macros, general text editing and org-mode). Yes, I have an interface for Git in VS Code as well, but it‘s very r…

You should check out edamagit, magit for vscode! https://github.com/kahole/edamagit

I just found this earlier this week and this as a key ingredient of VSpaceCode (Spacemacs bindings) enabled me to finally able to switch to VS Code for Elixir & Javascript programming, which has made me so much happier.
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