Sounds like you haven't used Magit very much. Browsing the manual for a few minutes, or looking at a screencast or YouTube video, would show you how much more

Sounds like you haven't used Magit very much. Browsing the manual for a few minutes, or looking at a screencast or YouTube video, would show you how much more Magit does than what you described. Regarding commit-patch specifically, its readme says that, to commit parts of a patch in separate commits, hunks must be "killed, split, or edited" into separate patches. Magit is obviously superior to that: with a few keypresses, hunks in the working tree can be staged, hunks in the index can be unstaged, etc. Unstaged changes in the working tree can quickly be sliced and diced and committed separately. Individual lines can be staged or unstaged by selecting them visually. Magit can even automatically back up changes at each stage of the process into special branches, so if you realize, hours or days later, that you accidentally discarded some code without committing it, you can easily retrieve it. Magit is the most powerful, efficient version control tool. See for yourself: https://magit.vc/ https://magit.vc/