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The same type of gutter integration can also be had in Vim and Sublime Text:

https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter

https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter

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To get the rest of the git integration in Sublime Text, check out SublimeGit: https://sublimegit.net

Emacs supports it for many different vcs' http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/diff-hl.html

And magit is the best git integration I've seen so far: http://magit.github.io/

Sometimes I wonder how I used git before magit.

I'm recent to the party. I've discovered magit-blame-mode; any other goodies I might be missing out on?

Magit can do most common actions with one or 2 strokes, like `cc` for commit, `ca` for amend etc. Push, pull fetch etc work like a breeze and wont lock up emacs till its complete.

Sometimes I forget the keys, then I either enable menu bar mode to quickly look it up or switch to eshell for a while

Yeah, once I'm in magit-status, I type "g" for update, "fa" for fetch all, and if I need to commit, "S" to add all changes, C-u S to add all unstaged files, and using "n" and "p" to move through the list, I use "4" and "2" to toggle between showing/hiding changes per file (sometimes "3" if I want to see only part of a file's changes). When Im' done, I do "c" to type a commit message, and "cc" to commit. Often I need to fix a commit message typo, so "c" and "ca" lets me amend. Then I just type "PP" to push my changes! If I need to force-push because of an amended commit that I pushed 2 seconds ago, I'll do "P-fP". And interactive rebasing is really easy too, with "E". But yeah I've already gone on too long here.

The central part of magit is `magit-status'. You do most of the things from there. It even allows you to stage small parts of a diff (like git add -i) simply by selecting the part in the status view and staging it.

Gutter integration is nice, but actually seeing different folder/file colours helps too, which you can't do in Sublime.

Yeah, and that part is quite nice. It may even be more useful than the gutters within files. I have to admit, in this particular sub-area, Atom has clearly done better and made ST3 look bad in comparison. This is great because it shows improvement, and I'm all for making our tools better. (I mention this because it's the first time I see Atom actually excel over ST3.)

vim-signify[1] supports more VCSs (git, hg, bzr, svn, ...).

[1] https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify

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