14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Magit first-hand: 9 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Magit and ghostel are good examples of packages that I use on a daily basis to get my work done.”
endorse · personal · jwr · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Git won, Magit is awesome.”
endorse · personal · TacticalCoder · 2026-01-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wouldn't crow about it like I do org or magit.”
endorse · personal · eamonnsullivan · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Unlike, say, org-mode or magit, which I'd happily evangelize.”
endorse · personal · kkylin · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm still on a version of magit from 2014 because they wouldn't stop moving things around despite it being, in my opinion, done.”
regret · personal · wibblewobble125 · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Magit for 8 years at-least.”
endorse · production · 8 yr · truncate · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“certain things like Magit were painfully slow”
regret · personal · josephferano · 2021-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The tool that always has me running back to emacs is Magit.”
endorse · personal · zomgwat · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using magit daily for 10 years; i'm extremely familiar with all the rebasing operations you mention.”
mixed · personal · 10 yr · Myrmornis · 2019-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Magit is really fantastic... I bit the bullet and took the time to learn Magit. I don't regret it one bit.”
endorse · personal · alexgaribay · 2018-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“what a fantastic Git client. It makes everything trivial to do, even rebases become safe and friendly.”
endorse · personal · jeremiep · 2017-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it is really frustrating when you don't connect that last inch with the exact commands.”
regret · personal · jmount · 2015-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Magit for years, but I've never seen the use of "porcelain" as a jargon term”
neutral · personal · ajarmst · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?