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by the-smug-one 1853 days ago
How often do you guys do really crazy stuff with git? I do some rebasing (interactively and not) and some cherry picking, very rarely do I touch reflog (in which case I do use the CLI).

What kind of race car stuff does git CLI offer that makes you have to go through weird contortions in magit :)?

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Well to use magit, first it's "ah, how do I open magit again?" Then it's "crap, now my org-mode buffer has been replaced by magit when I really wanted it in a separate tab but forgot to do the right key combo for that", then 5 minutes of googling "how to go back to previous screen in emacs doom", then remembering it's called a "buffer" That kind of stuff. I still get thrown off a surprising number of time by fat-fingering something and my emacs doing something surprising that I don't understand and am not sure what keys I touched to make it do that, and being unable to go back easily.

So it's really 100% on me for not being an emacs native rather than any shortcoming of magit per se, and as I said at some point I'll probably invest the time, but I _already_ have muscle memory for working in my terminal.