On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general

Re:On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general by Spunkie on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:25AM (#29736913)

I really consider context menus to be the most intuitive way to work with git.

I made the switch to Linux earlier this year but I still miss tortoisegit literally every day.

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Re:On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general by Stratoscope on Thursday December 30, 2021 @12:59PM (#29739227)

You might try SmartGit. I use it on Linux and Windows and love it.

I especially appreciate the way it makes it easy and obvious how to do things that would be complicated on the Git command line. Some examples:

Committed to the wrong branch? Drag the branch markers where you want them.

Want to see a diff between the files in two commits, possibly on unrelated branches? Click one commit, Ctrl+click the other, and the file diffs are right there.

Lost a commit and now you have to trawl through the reflog? Turn on the "Recyclable commits" checkbox and all those reflog commits show up as normal commits, complete with diffing as noted above.

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Re:On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general by ltultraweight on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:40AM (#29737040)

And I miss the speed at which magit works on Linux, when I have to use Windows for development.

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Re:On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general by NoGravitas on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:20AM (#29737983)

Same. Apparently magit is somewhat faster in WSL2, and eventually we'll get magit-libgit, hopefully.

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Re:On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general by BeetleB on Thursday December 30, 2021 @12:56PM (#29739169)

Surprised they don't have tortoisegit in Linux. Tortoisehg exists on both Windows and Linux.

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