[skeuomorf]

I recently switched from vim to emacs (mostly cause I want to mess around with LISPs and emacs LISP support is good e.g. CIDER) and I've had my eye on Magit from the get go, haven't had the time to mess around with it yet but definitely looking forward to do that.

>The disadvantage, of course, is that one really should still know how to use git competently at the command line for the 15% of tasks such wrappers aren't good at.

I definitely agree with this. I always learn the core technology before learning any convenience layer/wrapper/abstraction e.g. {(git, Magit), (CSS, -Insert Grid Framework-)}.

[cmiles74]

IMHO, Magit is easy to pick up and well worth the modest time investment. I have found the new release to be pretty speedy and making the commit directly from within Emacs is very handy.

[smcgivern]

Magit takes almost zero time to learn if you're used to the git CLI (some things are a bit weird, but mostly the commands are obvious from the help). It's basically a super-powered version of the git aliases lots of people use, but I don't bother, because I have magit :-)

[hardwaresofton]

Magit is amazing. Start using it now.

`C-h m` is your friend