You're assuming magit is less flexible than the command line porcelain, but it's not materially so afaik. It's pretty complete and claims to be the only actual

You're assuming magit is less flexible than the command line porcelain, but it's not materially so afaik. It's pretty complete and claims to be the only actual "porcelain" besides the cli. I've certainly never encountered an operation I couldn't perform in magit. Edit: the relevant claim from the docs is > Magit is an interface to the version control system Git, implemented as an Emacs package. Magit aspires to be a complete Git porcelain. While we cannot (yet) claim that Magit wraps and improves upon each and every Git command, it is complete enough to allow even experienced Git users to perform almost all of their daily version control tasks directly from within Emacs. While many fine Git clients exist, only Magit and Git itself deserve to be called porcelains.