[turboponyy]

Magit is possibly one of the best pieces of software ever written. Its discoverable and intuitive interface makes complex operations trivial and trivial operations blazingly fast and frictionless. The interface you use does matter. Magit greatly reduces the overhead for most Git operations, and, as such, has undoubtedly made me a more proficient Git user by making it easier to materialize my thoughts, experiment, and feel confident performing operations I otherwise would second guess - to a degree that I doubt other interfaces could replicate. Magit holds your hand, whilst not abstracting away Git's internals. It can not be praised enough.

[binary132]

Magit is wonderful and I am a daily user, but it is not that fast, particularly in the case where there are a huge number changes in the status view. That can take many seconds to render, with no interactivity. In most use though, it is fast enough, and I just drop to the shell when I need more.