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Syntonicles | 4 months ago

I've been using Magit for years, and have never noticed any bugs.

The interface is unique and takes a lot of getting used to. I did need to leverage my extensive experience with Git and Emacs to understand unexpected behaviour but the fault always lay with me.

Given the implications of bugs in such a critical part of a developer's workflow, can you be more specific?

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bowsamic|4 months ago

Mainly random lisp errors being thrown in certain cases, likely just unimplemented functionality, I didn't record them since there are so many. I probably see one every other day but usually it's somewhat outside of the normal operation of magit. It still feels like a bug though, and very likely is.

I mean, magit is not some perfect piece of software. Of course it has bugs, I just hit them quite a lot. The slowness is more annoying though. Sometimes it takes seconds to open magit after hitting C-x g

I've also had magit get stuck in a 100% CPU usage loop a couple times

Syntonicles|4 months ago

That sounds frustrating! It hasn't been my experience at all.

I'm an enthusiast when it comes to [Vanilla] Emacs. I enjoy customizing my editor, jumping into the Lisp when I find an error, and contributing - though my own config is usually the problem.

This sounds like an opportunity to improve the day-to-day for developers!

Please report any verified bugs to Github. There are only 12 open issues, most of them enhancement requests. The maintainers are celebrated in the community for their diligence and attentive engagement, and I'm sure they'd love to help.