Magit

Incredible tool. I've been using it every day for years now and can't imagine using git without it. The speed with which I can stash/unstash, switch branches, rebase, cherry pick or selectively stage is incredible. It's like riding a bicycle rather than walking. BTW, if you use and appreciate magit, please subscribe and contribute financially (yes, I do that). We shouldn't expect great tools to be maintained and developed for free.

Was going to make a joke about toilets but after some research realized porcelain does refer to a toilet in this case. Learn something new every day. In case anyone is curious: But because Git was initially a toolkit for a version control system rather than a full user-friendly VCS, it has a number of subcommands that do low-level work and were designed to be chained together UNIX-style or called from scripts. These commands are generally referred to as Git’s…

I used to be a hard-core command line only (no fancy shmancy UIs here GitX!) git user. I have also been an emacs user for 23 years. Since I discovered Magit I will not touch command line git anymore. It's that good. Single key-press for all major features, easily add arguments the same way, and q quits any temp buffer for viewing. Diffs and reviewing history is a breeze. It's exactly what I would expect git + emacs to be…

Obligatory screenshots (from Emacs w/ Solarized theme, running on StumpWM window manager): http://postimg.org/image/50d4d1rrv/ (log) http://postimg.org/image/s3eiagp89/ (diff)