Re:A work-in-progress Magit clone for Neovim
by NateEag on Thursday July 08, 2021 @08:26AM
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I felt exactly like you do for years before I finally learned Magit - as a competent CLI user, most of the Git GUIs I'd poked at were frustratingly limited and seemed worse than pointless for someone who had gotten a handle on the Git CLI.
Once I took a little while to learn Magit, it significantly reduced the number of keystrokes I needed for normal git operations.
It also made rebasing less of a chore in several ways.
It's still a bit of a tossup whether I'll use the terminal UI or Magit for a given operation, depending if I'm already in the terminal, but unlike most GUIs, I've found Magit actually reduced my friction for day-to-day work relative to the Git CLI.
Once I took a little while to learn Magit, it significantly reduced the number of keystrokes I needed for normal git operations.
It also made rebasing less of a chore in several ways.
It's still a bit of a tossup whether I'll use the terminal UI or Magit for a given operation, depending if I'm already in the terminal, but unlike most GUIs, I've found Magit actually reduced my friction for day-to-day work relative to the Git CLI.