Emacs Rocks! Episode 17: Magit

What it is

A three-minute Emacs Rocks screencast demonstrating Magit, the Git interface inside Emacs, including staging and other everyday operations.

HN users share it as the quick demo that shows what Magit can do, for people unfamiliar with it.

“It's easier to see it in action than explain it.”
Short screencast showing Magit in action
nickbarnwell, 2018-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git”
“I always share this demo with people to show off just a tiny portion of what it's capable of doing”
Demo of a small portion of Magit's capabilities
giggles_giggles, 2020-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Making Emacs Popular Again”
“If you are not familar with Magit, there is a screencast”
Intro screencast for those unfamiliar with Magit
d0mine, 2019-07 · Recommendation · in “Hub: Use GitHub from the Command Line”
“This demo is pretty good I think”
Demo of hunk- and line-level staging in Magit
ryukafalz, 2020-09 · Recommendation · in “Magit – A Git Porcelain inside Emacs”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: magit, emacs, git, screencast, staging