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Re:Magit, the magical Git interface (2017) by rich_sasha on Friday October 22, 2021 @12:30PM (#28959264)
Yes, except... again, this is fighting fire with fire.

If you don’t know git internals, mistype a non-obvious command and lose a bunch of commits, then “look in the reflog” advice is frankly adding insult to injury.

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Re:Magit, the magical Git interface (2017) by gigatexal on Saturday October 23, 2021 @01:11AM (#28965926)
The age old adage applies here: know your tools.
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Re:Magit, the magical Git interface (2017) by clojureyoureyes on Saturday October 23, 2021 @07:09AM (#28967355)
Software is for people, not for software itself.

I want to get things done fast and with less cognitive load, magit allows me to, git doesn't.

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Re:Magit, the magical Git interface (2017) by Osiris on Saturday October 23, 2021 @05:03AM (#28966817)
And he knows it well enough to prefer a different tool.

What's right for one isn't right for all.

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