Comment by Gergely Polonkai on "Do you use a visual git management tool?"

CommentDo you use a visual git management tool?

Gergely Polonkai

You have to believe in things that are not true. How else would they become?

Feb 21, 2019

Magit is my primary interface nowadays, but i’m far from being afraid of the CLI. In fact, back at my previous company (a tech giant of some sort) where devs had to use the CLI exclusively, i was The Git Goto Guy.

Magit is a great interface and if you use Emacs you really should give it a try. If you don’t, then it’s time for a test drive ;)

However, just like with any front end for a CLI tool, you should really learn the basics first. If you don’t know what git pull does in a terminal, you won’t know what the “Pull…” option does.

Mandar Vaze

Remote Software Consultant

Feb 22, 2019

I also use magit 90% of the times (For visual diffs and selecting hunks to stage - for git log and "push" - I user terminal/CLI)

From your second paragraph, I got an impression that magit can be used without emacs ? If yes, I didn't know.

Gergely Polonkai

Well, yes and no. It is a long term goal of the project to create a separate magit executable that fires up an Emacs instance that exits when you exit Magit. Actually, you can already do something similar with emacs --eval '(magit-status)' except it won’t quit (you have to use Ctrl-X Ctrl-C for that).

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