Emacs Rocks! Episode 17: Magit

Why HN readers recommended it

HN users share it as the quick demo that shows what Magit can do, for people unfamiliar with it.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

emacsrocks

Topic

magit git interface

Format

demo

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• If you're an emacs user, I can't recommend magit [1] enough. I was a diehard CLI user and had flags and aliases out the wazoo, and it was still a step change in usabilty and power for me. Staging hunks, rebasing, and stashing are all …

• I cannot possibly encourage you more to check out magit. It is unbelievably good. I always share this demo with people to show off just a tiny portion of what it's capable of doing [VIDEO] My skills with git have gotten better after using magit, …

• There is Magit Forge which is not limited to Github [LINK] If you are not familar with Magit, there is a screencast: Emacs Rocks! Episode 17: Magit [VIDEO]