Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

I've honestly come to the point where I have my handful of most used Magit key combinations to handle certain tasks. But I wouldn't for the life of me know how to apply those with raw git.

I started using it recently. It feels more like a git app in emacs, you use it in a separate buffer from your files. The shortcuts are ergonomic (single key presses, no gymnastics with modifier keys) and mnemonics are good: s(tage), c(ommit), p(ush).

I think https://github.com/jonas/tig and several other such tools are kind-of like that.

Magit is an exceptionally well made interface to Git. Yes, it’s built on top of Emacs, and that might stop many from even looking into it. - I am glad I made a deep dive into Emacs last year, and although I stopped using it as an IDE (VS Code is just too good), I still come back to it because of Magit (and macros, general text editing and org-mode). Yes, I have an interface for Git in VS Code as well, but it‘s very rudimentary compared to Magit, and it’s limited to the narrow left bar. And to give an example: Making „micro commits“ by staging various lines of changes is super easy in Magit, but I still haven‘t found out how to select several disconnected lines for staging in VS Code.