Magit has been simply essential for me for the last decade. I still switch to emacs for this even though most of my coding is in VSCode and edamagit covers simpler workflows for me.
Recently I've been trying jujutsu[0]. As awesome as Magit is, it can't fix some warts of Git like how it does conflict management. But I hate having to do version control from CLI. Most of all, I miss doing a bunch of work, going to magit-status (or edamagit), staging lines or entire files and committing parts of my work separately (like, dependency updates in a separate commit before committing api changes).
I've tried VisualJJ[1] and GG[2] but I just can't find a nice workflow with jj coming from Magit. Splitting changes feel cumbersome. What is your commit workflow with jj coming from Magit?
I've just started with jujutsu, as well. Jjui fills a little bit of the gap. Among other things, it allows for quick selecting and splitting of changes. But it's no Magit. I'm thinking of having a go at making an emacs interface for jj myself.
Magit was the last thing I had to let go of before deleting Emacs, and it took a while, too, before I could delete it altogether. Magit is really powerful. But after a decade of not using it, I struggle to remember whatever it was that was more convenient than just using VS Code's built in git committer and git tree viewer. Honestly, I don't think anything anymore, except slightly more convenient keyboard shortcuts. I can't help but wonder how much software has that kind of grip on me, where I think it's indispensable until I get used to the alternatives.
The shortcuts are kind of a big deal though. Im writing transient modes for everything I can. Its the perfect UI for git but also other productivity tasks. For example I wrapped our issue tracker (youtrack) in a transient mode and it has made it so much more enjoyable to use.
Yeah, Transient is very nice. Watch my vid for some good ideas https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44025635 (unrelated to Magit)
to give another jujutsu ui, I use jjui which works well for me
https://github.com/idursun/jjui