Seeing all the praise for Magit in these and numerous other threads, could someone please elaborate on its standout features that are missing from other editors/IDEs (VSCode+extensions or JetBrains)?
For example, in my current VSCode + GitLens setup (must admit that I have a corporate license for GitKraken, which enables full GitLens functionality). I use these features 99% of the time.
1. Convenient diff/merge with character-level diffs and visual indication of moved code.
2. A graphical commit tree with filtering, searching, numerous hovers with lots of information, and buttons to quickly jump to all sorts of diffs.
3. Interactive rebase (GUI for selecting those pick/squash/reword etc.)
4. Editing new and existing commit messages in vscode, which allows me to use better commit message formatters, LanguageTool and LLM extensions for rewriting/paraphrasing.
When I see comments like "Magit is the only thing that keeps me from leaving Emacs," I honestly wonder what they're going to miss.
For example, in my current VSCode + GitLens setup (must admit that I have a corporate license for GitKraken, which enables full GitLens functionality). I use these features 99% of the time.
1. Convenient diff/merge with character-level diffs and visual indication of moved code.
2. A graphical commit tree with filtering, searching, numerous hovers with lots of information, and buttons to quickly jump to all sorts of diffs.
3. Interactive rebase (GUI for selecting those pick/squash/reword etc.)
4. Editing new and existing commit messages in vscode, which allows me to use better commit message formatters, LanguageTool and LLM extensions for rewriting/paraphrasing.
When I see comments like "Magit is the only thing that keeps me from leaving Emacs," I honestly wonder what they're going to miss.