It's just a matter of convenience.. I have bookmarks set for
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?h=emacs-25,
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/ and
http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/log/. So it is just easier/quicker
to browse through those quickly in multiple tabs in a browser.

Also, I use the search interface on cgit.. it's very powerful for my
purpose where I can search by log/author/etc.

I am not saying that git CLI/Magit/gitk/etc cannot do that.. just that cgit
helps me do this stuff pretty quickly. Some day I might find the non-brower
git commit browsing quicker.

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:57 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 14:37:42 +0000
> >
> > We typically reference to emacs commits with their hashes. The cgit
> webpage does not show the commits:
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?h=emacs-25
> >
> > So I need to hover the mouse over each commit to see its hash in the
> browser status bar at the bottom (or it
> > shows as tooltip when hovered on with mouse in eww). I wuold like to
> avoid this mouse-hover step.
> >
> > As I don't know where to request this, I am mailing this here and
> hopefully it gets forwarded to the right
> > person.
> >
> > Request:
> >
> > Can we have one more column (probably on the left of commit description)
> that shows the first 6 chars of the
> > commit hash?
>
> Why do you use cgit?  Why not just use Git itself locally?
>
> --

-- 
Kaushal Modi