Indeed it’s one of the reasons why I’m staying with JetBrains products. It’s really efficient, we can compare side by side the local history to understand where it went wrong all while keeping the git history clean. Because while I could do the same manually with git, when I’m in the flow thinking about/building/debugging a particular piece of code, moving out to select files to add to git and then filling a message for that piece of code that isn’t working and doing that every few minutes to preserve intermediate state is a nightmare for my productivity.

It can and should be done automatically by the IDE to enhance developper productivity by getting out of its mind. There is no reason why I should be thinking about that, isn’t that all the point of using IDE and tools to develop ? Seems like using git for that is still re-inventing the wheel