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Tried it once. It seemed cute. That lasted precisely up to the point where I did a "git rebase -i" and landed in some crazy custom mode where I was supposed to use... I dunno, secret keybindings or something instead of just reordering the patches like I've done for years and years.

It went right in the trash and I haven't looked back. Do. Not. Break. Workflows. Ever. If a user knows they're supposed to open a file in a specific format in their editor, and you inject your pixie dust into the guts of their editor thinking you know better what they want to do than they do, then all you've done is prove to the user that you cannot be trusted to support their work.

Seriously: I don't use magit and don't want to learn its new tooling because I don't trust it not to break itself.




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