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(author here) The support I received during the last three weeks has been phenomenal! Thanks again! The only disappointment was that the campaign did not get a

(author here) The support I received during the last three weeks has been phenomenal! Thanks again! The only disappointment was that the campaign did not get a lot of press outside the Emacs community, which was a bit frustrating because I published a lot of the articles that are intended for potential users who are not Emacs users. Until now that is - please have a look [1]. I found it quite challenging to explain why someone who is not familiar with Emacs would want to use Magit even though the majority of those who have given it a chance swear by it. It's a bit like explaining to someone who has only every used GUIs, why the command-line can be an empowering interface. But I think I did a fairly good job at [2]. Also, please excuse the crappy video - the Magit campaign might be the Kickstarter campaign with the least polished video to ever succeed ;-) Luckily a few users have created more informative video tutorials in the past [3]. [1] https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/campaign-articles/ https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/campaign-articles/ [2] https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/the-magical-git-interface/#start https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/the-magical-git-interface/#st... [3] https://magit.vc/screencasts/ https://magit.vc/screencasts/

dotdi 9y ago
I'm really excited about the use outside of emacs and that's why I backed.
alphaBetaGamma 9y ago
Would it be possible to do a special distribution for non emacs users? I'm thinking of one download with emacs + magit + CUA mode by default + run magit-status on startup (or whatever else would be appropriate). So it looks like a standalone git client rather than emacs. I'm an emacs user, so I would never use this, but it's just a thought.
- tarsius 9y ago
  I intend to make Magit usable from the command-line, so `magit diff ...` would be similar to `git diff ...` except that the output would be "actionable", i.e. you can use `s` to stage, `RET` to visit the file/blob [edit: eventually even in an editor other than Emacs] etc. And `q` to return to the command line. Packaging that up in a fail-safe fashion is a different story, I would like to do that too, but I expect it will be a lot of work and would certainly appreciate help with that. (There are some projects like Lispbox, which might give such an effort a head start.) At least in the beginning I think "mostly fail-safe" installation instructions will have to do.
somedudetbh 9y ago
Magit is really an incredible piece of work. Thanks so much for it. I mean, I already use emacs, but I feel it would be a legitimate reason to switch to emacs, or even to use emacs just when dealing with Git operations.

dotdi 9y ago

I'm really excited about the use outside of emacs and that's why I backed.

alphaBetaGamma 9y ago

Would it be possible to do a special distribution for non emacs users? I'm thinking of one download with emacs + magit + CUA mode by default + run magit-status on startup (or whatever else would be appropriate). So it looks like a standalone git client rather than emacs. I'm an emacs user, so I would never use this, but it's just a thought.

tarsius 9y ago
I intend to make Magit usable from the command-line, so `magit diff ...` would be similar to `git diff ...` except that the output would be "actionable", i.e. you can use `s` to stage, `RET` to visit the file/blob [edit: eventually even in an editor other than Emacs] etc. And `q` to return to the command line. Packaging that up in a fail-safe fashion is a different story, I would like to do that too, but I expect it will be a lot of work and would certainly appreciate help with that. (There are some projects like Lispbox, which might give such an effort a head start.) At least in the beginning I think "mostly fail-safe" installation instructions will have to do.

somedudetbh 9y ago

Magit is really an incredible piece of work. Thanks so much for it. I mean, I already use emacs, but I feel it would be a legitimate reason to switch to emacs, or even to use emacs just when dealing with Git operations.