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One think that I've been impressed with is that changes you make from the command line are reflected instantly in the GUI. I like to change branches from PowerShell with posh-git. I'm using the GUI and command line interchangeably.

(Disclaimer: I work for MSFT but not in the git/vs group)

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Glad you like it! (I work for MSFT and I tested this feature).

This is one feature that Eclipse don't have since you have to refresh everytime there is changes outside the IDE.

Every time someone says VS blows Eclipse I wonder what VS have that Eclipse don't. When I dabbled C# few years ago, I find the textual support for refactoring and such are much lacking in VS IMO. I haven't tried Resharper though.

My brother applaud VS for its WYSIWYG, but you rarely do that when you program in Java.

Resharper adds so much values to VS, that's it's hard for me to work without it. I've been using resharper for about a year, and it's simply amazing. My productivity has gone through the roof (I've been using VS since 2003). Alt+Enter gives you the magic.

Currently working in VS and Eclipse at my current gig. One thing that I definitely miss when working in Eclipse is the ability to move the instruction pointer around at my own discretion. Though, admittedly, I'm unsure if this is a limitation of the languages more so than the IDE. /digression

> This is one feature that Eclipse don't have since you have to refresh everytime there is changes outside the IDE.

That used to annoy me a lot. But isn't there a setting that makes Eclipse scan for changes on the file system now? I don't remember what it's called.

God I wish emacs would do that with magit, though maybe there is some elisp out there that would aide me. Too lazy to look.

File system notifications are proprietary to each OS, so you may not find anything great.

Put

   '(global-auto-revert-mode t)

In the "custom-set-variables" section of your .emacs, and it will automatically reload any file open in emacs that changes on disk (excepting files with unsaved changes). While it's a little slow doing the actual reloads under Cygwin, it's blinding fast on Linux. Works a charm with egg, haven't tried magit.

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