You can choose to not learn Emacs and still use Magit. Any LLM will teach you the necessary config and then Magit is its own set of keybinds and everything.

You don't need to learn the JVM (beyond getting it installed) to play Minecraft and you don't need to learn Emacs to run Magit.

> is there any alternative path

Yes there is - `alias vim='emacs -nw'` :)

Seriously though, do grant Lisp serious consideration - Emacs only truly comprehensible through the lens of Lisp. The experience may open your eyes to an amazing, wide world of interesting possibilities - Magit is only one of them. No serious programmer and computer scientist would ever outright dismiss Lisp. I'm not saying that you're categorically will fall in love with it, but you may like it. Then, the question "should I try Emacs" would have a completely different meaning.

First, install doom emacs. Second, create a shell alias for "magit" that is bound to "emacs -nw -f magit". Then just run magit like any other TUI app - the fact that it's in emacs is easy to forget.

Or, if you're into neovim, there's Neogit, which is inspired by magit. And if you're not, there's https://github.com/altsem/gitu

Why don’t you want to learn emacs? It isn’t very difficult. It’s never worth it to avoid learning

Learning Emacs is easy, I have done it many times...

Nowadays I open Emacs exclusively for magit. I only know perhaps less than 5 magit commands, however, even use it for staging changes is such a huge leap and its chunk staging is indispensiable.

gui app for linux with base magit features https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.aganzha.Stage