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skrebbeltoday at 2:50 PM4 repliesview on HN

Ilove everything about this post.

"It's super easy! Just do l-Akqr␍=u2025-06-01␍-s--tests␍b!"


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PaulDavisThe1sttoday at 3:22 PM

from TFA:

> That looks complicated, but remember how we built it: we looked at the hints and selected one option at a time. Now, if this is a log type we’ll use often, we are going to start to be able to write out that incantation without even looking at the hints. It’s both discoverable and efficient.

akagrtoday at 4:26 PM

The important part is you don’t have to remember that gobbledygook. I don’t know why author posted that key stroke list as it seems to remove value from this post and make it look harder than it is.

Magit surfaces all available commands and options for you, along with key shortcuts as well as the actual git cli counterparts if you want to learn the raw command, too.

txrutoday at 3:49 PM

These are indicated through context menus throughout specifying what the responses should be. It's a minimal UI though, and where `git rebase` is confusing magit rebase is confusing.

onfir3today at 4:20 PM

Exactly my thought