[chippy]

The best thing for me with Netbeans is the visual diff feature and local history, which works with git. There's a side by side diff view, and there's a clickable gutter marker in normal mode.

You can see individual changes, see history of a file, revert back lines, see what happened upon every save, not just every commit. I use it for Ruby on Rails. This, and the find (grep) feature is the only feature that I use. None of the other bells or whistles.

I've been working on plugin for Geany that approaches this, but nothing has matched it for Netbeans.