If you're an emacs user, I can't recommend magit [1] enough. I was a diehard CLI user and had flags and aliases out the wazoo, and it was still a step change in usabilty and power for me. Staging hunks, rebasing, and stashing are all vastly easier. Amending or editing a commit is a breeze, and it's tied in to all of the other emacs tools you already use, e.g. org-mode to boot! It's easier to see it in action than explain it. If you've two minutes to spare, check out this emacsrocks screencast [2], or Howard Abram's longer presentation from the PDX Emacs Hackers meetup [3]. [1]: [link] [2]: [this video] [3]: [link]
I cannot possibly encourage you more to check out magit. It is unbelievably good. I always share this demo with people to show off just a tiny portion of what it's capable of doing [this video] My skills with git have gotten better after using magit, too, because it brings the power of git to the surface. It's a really fantastic git porcelain and the fact that it is deeply integrated into Emacs just makes it absolutely second to none. Magit is easily one of my favorite pieces of software and I will leap at the chance to sing its praises.
There is Magit Forge which is not limited to Github [link] If you are not familar with Magit, there is a screencast: Emacs Rocks! Episode 17: Magit [this video]
Not sure about other editors, but Magit's hunk- and line-level staging/unstaging is hard to beat, IMO. For hunk-level staging, you put your cursor on the hunk you want to add and press "s". If you want to split that and only stage a few lines, you just select those lines and press "s". This demo is pretty good I think: [this video]
The video is indeed... not so great. I would go as far as to say that this might be the Kickstarter campaign with the crappiest video that ever succeeded. But at some point I just had to launch instead of continuing to hope I would eventually get around to launching the perfect campaign. I did however make an effort to give non-Emacs a better glimpse into how Magit works using a few articles listed at [1]. You might also want to check out some of the screencasts that were created by users [2]. [1] [link] [2] [this video] [link]
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