I got so used to staging individual lines instead of files — it’s so much more intuitive! With „s“ and „u“ I sift through my edits and discard any debug code th

I got so used to staging individual lines instead of files — it’s so much more intuitive! With „s“ and „u“ I sift through my edits and discard any debug code that I haven’t checked-in accidentally for a long time. Magit also speeds up cycle management of dev branches so much. It‘s usually just a couple of single key strokes — pretty cool. But I would say, you really have to have drank the Emacs Koolaid to appreciate Magit‘s greatness. That being said it’s only after I discovered Magit I also started to appreciate Emacs‘ built-in version control mode: The same key combo „C-x v n“ (Versioning Next step) does initialize a repo and checks in files with any kind of backend (be it git, mercurial or subversion). That’s pretty neat, too. With „C-x v l“ I access „git log“ for any file where I can access diffs or visit an older version of the file in a separate buffer e.g. to try out an older implementation of a function. „C-x v g“ gives me a „git blame“ integration jumping straight to the line I was hovering on. So for exploring git logs I am using vc-mode but staging and branching I am leveraging Magit. They complement each other well.