Without Spacemacs having me brought to the Emacs worlds, I would have never discovered magit. Nowadays I am soo tied to it that I even have a `magit` script that can be called from anywhere:

  #!/usr/bin/env bash

  emacsclient -c --eval "(progn (magit-status) (delete-other-windows))"

The learning curve is a bit long, but really worth it!

Note: this require you to have setup emacs as a deamon somehow