Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

Re:Magit, the magical Git interface (2017) by jwr on Friday October 22, 2021 @09:28AM (#28956936)

I think (2) is why I use it, it's just much faster. It doesn't let you skip over understanding Git, it just makes you work faster.

I also think that the experiences of:

* looking into a stash and applying only selected changes from it, * browsing all your changes and staging only some of them, * quickly killing changes that you simply want to drop, e.g. not commit and remove from your edits

are much slower when using the command line.

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Re:Magit, the magical Git interface (2017) by digikata on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:44AM (#28957866)

I tend to avoid using stash in that fine grained way because branches are cheap in git, and you get a rich set of operations using a local branch to stack up unorganized code changes. Rely on stash on only very quick setting aside of work then returning to it. If I stash and find it needs to live longer than that - I’ll stuff it into a named branch.

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