[olau]

Magit is not terribly intuitive.

It looks a bit like a menu-based GUI, so you'd expect to navigate around and use a standard set of keys, but most of it is actually powered by special key combinations.

Now, in some circumstances, that works fine, but honestly the interface could be simplified a bit and probably made faster to use. And less prone to the "oh shit, I thought I was typing something but now I actually hit 3 different Magit key combinations and have no clue what just happened".

Personally, I'm hoping someone takes the standard VC thing in Emacs and adds some of the Magit features to that. But meanwhile, I'm using Magit. :)

[nvarsj]

There's definitely some aspects of it which I struggle with. Like cherry picking a commit always feels somewhat painful, and I can never remember offhand the exact menus and keys to press to do it. But for day to day development, it's fast and great. I love having the separation between the push branch and merge branches for example, which feels very natural in a PR workflow. And the forge integration is brilliant.

[tcoff91]

Cherry-picking is amazing with magit. I use spacemacs so my magit has evil style keybindings.

I just open up a log view to the branch i'm cherry-picking from, move the cursor to the commit I want to pick, then if I don't remember what the key is I just press ? and it shows me all the commands, then I press A for cherry-picking, and it immediately populates it with the commit that my cursor is on in the log view. Easy-peasy.

[nvarsj]

I think it's having to go into a log view that bugs me. I just want to press one button for cherry pick, point it to a ref and be done. It might be possible but I haven't figured out how yet.