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.
I just found this earlier this week and this as a key ingredient of VSpaceCode (Spacemacs bindings) enabled me to finally able to switch to VS Code for Elixir & Javascript programming, which has made me so much happier.
VSCode with Gitlens is the best git GUI experience I've had.
I prefer most operations via git cli, but for commiting partial changes and merge conflicts, it's everything I could ask for.
I just discovered that GitLens has been acquired by GitKraken. Considering that GK's entire business is "buy our premium Git GUI because the free ones suck", I have to wonder if they'll try going to intentionally wreck the extension. Fortunately it's MIT licensed.
Git Graph [0] already exists as a different extension from GitLens. It works quite well, although of course it would be nice if the two extensions could integrate with each other.
The real value of Spacemacs is which-key and having everything already configured with semantic leader key setups. Like you can absolutely do that yourself but at that point you're implementing Spacemacs.
Actually it might require the gitlens extension. It's very well integrated and I've been using it for so long I don't know where one ends and the other begins. Regardless, if you open the diff view, the right hand side is editable and you can make selections like any other view.
