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by znpy 100 days ago
> I don't even use a Mac any more after 20 years

So the software is mac-only, you haven't used a mac in over 20 years so you haven't used this software and yet... you claim it's better than magit?

i mean, it's very dishonest at best.
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BeetleB 100 days ago
> you haven't used a mac in over 20 years

Not what he said. You misparsed.

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troupo 100 days ago
The claim was that its GUI is better than Magit's, following this claim: "Magit is absolutely the best Git GUI ever."
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lambda 100 days ago
It may be prettier looking. I've seen many Git GUIs that are prettier than Magit.

But none of them that I've tried have ever come close to the workflow.

I can stage and unstage individual hunks, do complex interactive rebases, squash commits, break apart commits, etc. much faster in Magit than I can in other Git GUIs.

Maybe you're hung up on the "G" part; perhaps I should have just said "UI" rather than "GUI".

So no, I haven't tried that one because it's Mac only, but I'm not really seeing from the screen recordings the kind of workflow that I find so powerful in Magit.

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troupo 100 days ago
> I can stage and unstage individual hunks, do complex interactive rebases, squash commits, break apart commits, etc. much faster in Magit than I can in other Git GUIs.

I can do all that pretty fast in GitUp, too. Since most of the commands there have quick keyboard shortcuts.

My most common workflow besides staging anything is (to make sure history is clean):

- split up a commit (add/remove files or hunks if the commit contains stuff that should go into another commit) - move new commit up/down the branch (doesn't require interactive rebase in GitUp) - squash up/down

(undo/redo from time to time)

As far as I understand, Magit doesn't offer anything in that regard except the good old interactive rebase [1]. In GitUp moving commits is (u)p/(d)own and (s)quash with parent

> Maybe you're hung up on the "G" part; perhaps I should have just said "UI" rather than "GUI".

The distinction doesn't matter. The keyword in both GUI and UI is User. As a user I found GitUp to be a much better tool than Magit. Though Magit does probably allow for more very advanced usage most people don't do. [2]

However, actual useful usage like I described above? Ooh boy, no one does it except GitUp for some reason.

[1] I only have this blog post to confirm https://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/magit-squashing.ht...

[2] There's another downside to GitUp: it's very slow on repos with huge histories. Probably due to the git library it's using.

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