fugitive.vim makes it very fast to do laser-focused partial commits, you just have to remember to do it 2-3 times a day. It's really very good. I think Magit in

fugitive.vim makes it very fast to do laser-focused partial commits, you just have to remember to do it 2-3 times a day. It's really very good. I think Magit in the Emacs universe does more or less the same. Git-gui (bundled with Git) doesn't look that nice, but is also pretty fast for making partial commits.