Re:Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?
by nequo on Friday October 14, 2022 @09:41PM
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>> Using the git CLI is much better for version control than the Jetbrains GUI wrapper
> For some things. But for reviewing activity in git, and tracking changes across time, doing it in the terminal is unproductive and sucks. (e.g.: 10 levels deep of git blame)
Magit[1] in Emacs is quite okay. It doesn’t feel duct-taped. I haven’t used fugitive[2] in Vim but that’s a thing that exists too.
> For some things. But for reviewing activity in git, and tracking changes across time, doing it in the terminal is unproductive and sucks. (e.g.: 10 levels deep of git blame)
Magit[1] in Emacs is quite okay. It doesn’t feel duct-taped. I haven’t used fugitive[2] in Vim but that’s a thing that exists too.
[1] https://magit.vc/
[2] https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive