I recently switched from vim to emacs (mostly cause I want to mess around with LISPs and emacs LISP support is good e.g. CIDER) and I've had my eye on Magit from the get go, haven't had the time to mess around with it yet but definitely looking forward to do that.
>The disadvantage, of course, is that one really should still know how to use git competently at the command line for the 15% of tasks such wrappers aren't good at.
I definitely agree with this. I always learn the core technology before learning any convenience layer/wrapper/abstraction e.g. {(git, Magit), (CSS, -Insert Grid Framework-)}.
>The disadvantage, of course, is that one really should still know how to use git competently at the command line for the 15% of tasks such wrappers aren't good at.
I definitely agree with this. I always learn the core technology before learning any convenience layer/wrapper/abstraction e.g. {(git, Magit), (CSS, -Insert Grid Framework-)}.