Is there anything similar that doesn't require me to use Emacs?

kragen · on March 6, 2020

Not really. You can use Emacs just for Magit, though, without adopting it for things like text editing, PDF viewing, email, and Tetris.

xoob · on March 6, 2020

Check out https://github.com/jonas/tig, a ncurses-based text-mode interface for Git.

Evidlo · on March 6, 2020

There are magit clones for other editors, though less featureful:

https://github.com/jreybert/vimagit

https://github.com/diiq/atomatigit

Myrmornis · on March 6, 2020

I sort of want to question what you mean exactly by "use Emacs"? Emacs is a lisp environment / UI framework for application development. So in principle saying you don't want to use an application implemented in Emacs is like saying you don't want to use an application implemented in Electron. I'm only 85% serious there, obviously Emacs has a certain amount of cruft that Electron I assume does not.

You could start an emacs process just in order to use Magit -- you wouldn't have to use it for anything else. However, I totally understand that you might well not want to mess about configuring emacs to load magit and working out how to start it etc. How about these?

https://github.com/vlandeiro/magit-docker

https://github.com/akirak/nix-magit

omaranto · on March 6, 2020

There are some people who refuse to use applications implemented with Electron.

Myrmornis · on March 6, 2020

There's also https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

thanatropism · on March 6, 2020

Sublime Merge does not emphasize text input per se but allows you to type git commands with partial autocomplete/suggestions...