[a] The issue of key-memorization is mitigated through use of a popup menu which displays the actions available to the user[8] — serving as a mnemonic aid.

[11] Since its release, Magit has seen a high degree of community involvement, with 350 individuals[12] having contributed code to this free software project as of September 2020.

[14] Since the Kickstarter funded period expired donations are encouraged to support the authors development via direct payments, GitHub's sponsorship program and various other crowdfunding services.

Forge currently allows for[20] Magit is favourably covered in a number of blog posts and tutorials and a talk delivered by former Emacs' maintainer John Wiegley.

[24][25] There has been interest in including Magit as a built-in feature package in Emacs, but there are issues with obtaining FSF copyright assignment from all contributors to the project.