Comment by DigitalJack

See my comment in sibling thread. I am not familiar with Magit, but there's no equivalent on the CLI to Fugitive's flow for rapidly traversing history, it's really really useful, and lets me answer questions that other devs on the team just throw up their hands because a line may have traversed several different files over dozens of commits throughout its history. The reason it can't be done on the CLI is because you need multiple buffers and window management to make it viable.

All that said, I don't really use it for committing, mostly because I have a shell open right next to the editor anyway.