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I really live having good formatting and spell check in the commit messages. It's much nicer than the `git commit -m "blah"` messages. Sure I could use another GUI, but magit is very easy when I'm already in emacs.

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If you leave out -m 'blah' git uses your $EDITOR which could be vim/emacs/whatever, which of course can spell check. So that one part is not a selling point for magit.

Perhaps you do not know, but if you leave off the -m switch, git will launch $EDITOR with a commented list of files changed, where you can write your commit message.

Perhaps he did not know, but I find that a lot of developers, especially those not using GUIs, end up using -m every single time and writing poor commit messages. With Magit, at least in my experience, you are more inclined to write better commits.

If you give developers a "lazy" option, a lot will default to it, which isn't ideal. -m is an alternative for a quick commit and end up being front and center when using the CLI.

> With Magit, at least in my experience, you are more inclined to write better commits.

I have flyspell-mode enabled for git-commit-mode. Avoids embarrassing typos in my git commit log.

It's little stuff like this adding up, making Emacs too great to ever be without.

it is also harder from the CLI to stage granular changes (git add -p helps to a point).

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