I most commonly use gitsum which is fast and easy and, in combination with Emacs' diff-mode, lets me edit my pending commits all to hell. (In my experience few

I most commonly use gitsum which is fast and easy and, in combination with Emacs' diff-mode, lets me edit my pending commits all to hell. (In my experience few other people like doing this.) gitsum is really only good for committing, of course. When I want to do other Git operations I most commonly just go to the command line. If I have to do them from inside Emacs I've found Magit to be usable, DVC as well (though I haven't needed it in my latest Emacs install; I only have Magit currently).