I’m not familiar with magit but from a quick skim of the “visual walkthrough” I think you can get most if not all of the functionality either built in to vscode or with the free “git lens” plugin, one of the most popular in the extension directory.

Here’s what’s built in: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/versioncontrol

and git lens: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eamodio....