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Magit is a complete text-based user interface to Git

Magit is a complete text-based user interface to Git, providing a full-featured Git client that runs inside Emacs. It offers a comprehensive set of Git operations through an intuitive, keyboard-driven interface in the terminal.

Background

Magit is a popular Emacs package that provides a complete, text-based interface for the Git version-control system, allowing users to perform Git operations entirely within the Emacs editor without touching the command line. Emacs is a highly extensible, decades-old text editor popular in the programming community, especially among Lisp developers. Magit is widely considered a "killer app" for Emacs — many developers choose or stay with Emacs specifically because of how seamlessly Magit integrates Git workflows. It replaces memorizing Git CLI commands with interactive, keyboard-driven menus and visual displays of diffs, logs, staging areas, and branches. Its creator, Jonas Bernoulli (also known as "tarsius"), has maintained it since 2013, evolving it into one of the most polished and deeply featured Emacs packages available.

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