[kwlug-disc] Git study group at KPL

Mingde (Matthew) Zeng matthewzmd at posteo.net
Sun Aug 15 00:39:19 EDT 2021


Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca> writes:

> On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:11:51 +0000, "Mingde (Matthew) Zeng" <matthewzmd at posteo.net> said:
>
>> The author jwiegley, John Wiegley, I immediately recognized this
>> name. He's a well respected person in the Emacs community who most
>> famously wrote the use-package library.
>
> He's not just well respected in the Emacs community.  He's the Emacs
> maintainer as of 2015.

You are absolutely correct, I feel bad forgetting that!

>
>> There're many great Git learning tools discussed here, I'd like to
>> share a Git advance tool that gives both the flexibility you'd expect
>> from a git CLI and the easiness to use from a GUI: the magit library
>> in Emacs: https://magit.vc/
>
> I second the recommendation of magit for Emacs users.  It looks like
> there is vimagit for vim users and neogit for neovim that are supposed
> to be similar, but I've never tried them.
>
> And, speaking of John Wiegley, here's a video of Wiegley demoing magit:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-k-lkilbEs
>
> I think that I use only a tiny bit of magit's features, but it's already
> great.  I only watched the first 15 minutes or so of that video and
> already learned some things about magit.
>
> Hubert
>
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