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magit transient
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0.4% 0.3%
9.3 9.3
3 days ago 3 days ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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magit

Posts with mentions or reviews of magit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-27.
  • M-X Reloaded: The Second Golden Age of Emacs โ€“ (Think)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
    Then the slowness that you're seeing is probably Windows-specific, and that's why everyone else is telling you that Magit is actually fast.

    WSL might make things faster.[1] IIUC, the problem is that starting new processes is much slower on Windows than on Linux/Unix and Magit relies heavily on that. This seems to have plagued Git tooling more generally but maybe this got fixed since then.[2]

    [1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/58444

    [2] https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2395#issuecomment-1710...

  • I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2023
  • Is it too late to learn emacs as a vim lifer?
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Oct 2023
    You'll want to invest the time in learning Magit, which will change your life once you get the hang of it (and I was a heavy user of Fugitive in Vim previously!), and it's unlikely you'll find a better integration with GDB anywhere else on the planet than with Emacs, though I can't say that empirically. You just need to take the plunge and start learning it, then cut over and take the hit in productivity one day when you're feeling adventurous. You'll ultimately become far more powerful than you've ever been. Especially if you delve into elisp over time. I use Spacemacs, which is bloated and has bugs, but it has so many features that I haven't undertaken the massive endeavor to replace it from scratch yet.
  • On Desktop GUI Minimalism
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Sep 2023
    > Even in this article just a few sentences after stating we should start from first principles he then jumps into the assumption of the "desktop".

    Agree. Although I can see how the idea of "first principles" can be a very difficult starting point. A blank sheet of paper is a scary monster.

    There's a huge breadth and depth of non-"desktop" GUIs out there, some (like smartphones) are even wildly successful. It's good to explore them for inspiration. Some of my favourites:

    - Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com/about/) - I won't attempt to summarize, just dive in!

    - SailfishOS (https://sailfishos.org/) - mobile UI focused on interaction through gestures / swipes; I've used it as my daily driver for a couple years.

    - Speaking of mobiles, classic Nokia UIs allowed you to navigate to a specific item in the menu by pressing the corresponding digit on the dial pad. Once you learned where a particular item is, accessing e.g. your SMS inbox was extremely quick.

    - Apple Watch / WatchOS (https://www.apple.com/watchos/) - I've always loved the idea of a device where one of the primary interaction methods was a wheel/dial of some sort. The watch even gives you context-sensitive tactile feedback.

    - ZUIs in general (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface) and the work of Jef Raskin in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software) - this is the guy who helped design the Macintosh, but his other work took a radically different route.

    - Magit (https://magit.vc/). Many common git operations are reduced to a couple of keystrokes; the obscure features are more discoverable, and the cumbersome procedures (such as rebasing, or staging individual hunks) become simple and intuitive. Also check out transient (https://github.com/magit/transient), which is the "UI toolkit" that powers Magit.

  • Not trying to start a rumble, but why emacs
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 10 Jul 2023
    This can be done most comfortably with org-mode in emacs. It offers a lot of features, and they all operate on plain text. There are also nice integrations for git and languagetool, but I guess those are less exclusive.
  • Introducing Consult-GH
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 27 Jun 2023
    How does this differ from https://magit.vc/ ?
  • Magit
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 26 Jun 2023
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jun 2023
  • Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2023
    I would rather see innovative tools that lessen our dependency on 50+ year old tech. This is still a glorified teletype. It uses AI to autosuggest git commands? Contrast with Magit[1], which (while it has a tiny bit of a learning curve, but also nowhere near 23M in funding) actually makes interacting with git a pleasure.

    [1]: https://magit.vc

  • A warning to always remember that Obsidian Sync is potentially dangerous
    3 projects | /r/ObsidianMD | 5 Jun 2023
    Also was using Emacs (org-mode)[https://orgmode.org] for years with (Magit)[https://magit.vc] package for git. I feel org-mod is a precursor to Roam Research, Obsidian, et al. Hit the spot for years but I wanted editing on mobile so thatโ€™s why Iโ€™m here. :)

transient

Posts with mentions or reviews of transient. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-09.
  • On Desktop GUI Minimalism
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Sep 2023
    > Even in this article just a few sentences after stating we should start from first principles he then jumps into the assumption of the "desktop".

    Agree. Although I can see how the idea of "first principles" can be a very difficult starting point. A blank sheet of paper is a scary monster.

    There's a huge breadth and depth of non-"desktop" GUIs out there, some (like smartphones) are even wildly successful. It's good to explore them for inspiration. Some of my favourites:

    - Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com/about/) - I won't attempt to summarize, just dive in!

    - SailfishOS (https://sailfishos.org/) - mobile UI focused on interaction through gestures / swipes; I've used it as my daily driver for a couple years.

    - Speaking of mobiles, classic Nokia UIs allowed you to navigate to a specific item in the menu by pressing the corresponding digit on the dial pad. Once you learned where a particular item is, accessing e.g. your SMS inbox was extremely quick.

    - Apple Watch / WatchOS (https://www.apple.com/watchos/) - I've always loved the idea of a device where one of the primary interaction methods was a wheel/dial of some sort. The watch even gives you context-sensitive tactile feedback.

    - ZUIs in general (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface) and the work of Jef Raskin in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software) - this is the guy who helped design the Macintosh, but his other work took a radically different route.

    - Magit (https://magit.vc/). Many common git operations are reduced to a couple of keystrokes; the obscure features are more discoverable, and the cumbersome procedures (such as rebasing, or staging individual hunks) become simple and intuitive. Also check out transient (https://github.com/magit/transient), which is the "UI toolkit" that powers Magit.

  • Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2023
    True, and I'd personally rather move away from Emacs to something more modern. (Helix is great, although I appreciate the irony of it being terminal-only, while Emacs supports several different window systems natively.) Magit is the only real reason I'm sticking with Emacs.

    Magit itself is powered by <https://github.com/magit/transient>, which I see more as an interaction paradigm than a library; it could enable more ergonomic interaction with other stateful tools that are typically native to the command line / terminal (such as docker/kubectl, systemctl, mpd/mpc, etc). Rather than using Emacs as a middle layer, Transient could build on top of pluggable native toolkit backends, such as Cocoa, Gtk, Win32, or even web or a terminal.

    We continue investing into terminals because the terminal remains the lowest common denominator of interacting with a computer. On the other end of the spectrum we have Electron, which has very clear and obvious downsides. I think there is low-hanging fruit with amazing ROI somewhere in the middle, and Magit/Transient is an example of what it could be.

  • What do you use for git integration in neovim?
    8 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Jun 2023
    You can also manage via a holistic UI: - Bisection - Log and reflog, stashes - subtrees, submodules - certain third party subcommands like git-absorb, and extend it with your own - interact with issues and pull requests via forge - pretty much all of the hundreds of CLI flags via a modal UI that got generalized and extracted to a lib called transient - well-integrated diff and conflict resolution (which is mostly just smerge) - the rebase/cherry-pick workflows I liked the best, including support for --update-refs - at any time you can always press a key to see the raw commands and output that it's using, which taught me a ton of corner cases - IMO it has a great manual
  • Transient Demo Requests?
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 11 May 2023
    See https://github.com/magit/transient/issues/239 .
  • Transient v0.4.0 released
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 10 May 2023
    More information can be found on my blog and in the release notes.
  • Dynamic Transient Infixes Based on Current Values of Other Infixes
    1 project | /r/emacs | 22 Apr 2023
    AFAIK :if etc. do not "live update", but only function on initial prefix setup (see this issue). You could use a sub-prefix that evaluates settings from its parent to set the available options. Another tip: add an incompatible list so you can't get two desserts:
  • I cannot get EmacSQL to work
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 15 Apr 2023
    Yeah, ok, simplest is then to just trash the transient folder and either let Emacs clone it again on startup, or manually clone it: https://github.com/magit/transient
  • Khoj Chat: A Search Assistant for your Org-Mode Notes
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 27 Mar 2023
    M-x khoj RET c via transient
  • Transient for resizing windows
    1 project | /r/emacs | 6 Nov 2022
    This is about resizing the frame, but might also be relevant: https://github.com/magit/transient/issues/216.
  • quick-actions.el: Uniform Compile/Run/Debug across programming languages
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 12 Jun 2022
    Will a hydra or a transient menu?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing magit and transient you can also consider the following projects:

vim-fugitive - fugitive.vim: A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal

emacs-lite

lazygit - simple terminal UI for git commands

ani-cli - A cli tool to browse and play anime

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

emacs-light - My lightweight bare necessities emacs config

code-review - Code Reviews in Emacs

crunchyroll-go - ๐Ÿ“š A Crunchyroll (beta) API implementation in Go

gitui - Blazing ๐Ÿ’ฅ fast terminal-ui for git written in rust ๐Ÿฆ€

anime-helper-shell - A python shell for searching, watching, and downloading anime.

emacs-ng - A new approach to Emacs - Including TypeScript, Threading, Async I/O, and WebRender.

evil - The extensible vi layer for Emacs.