Changelists are more like splitting your local changes into several groups. The idea is that you usually want to commit only one group of changes while leaving others uncommitted. For every changed line the editor will show you whether it’s modified in scope of your active changelist or in scope of a non-active one. Also, you can easily ‘shelf’ and ‘unshelf’ a changelist.

I was actively using changelists for some time, but later switched to git worktrees instead. Now I usually have only 2 changelists: ‘Default’ and ‘Hacks - don’t commit!’.

you can have any number of changelists (or changesets) active at once.

You can actually have changes in the same file with some lines in different changesets.

When needed, you can commit changes to git (when you finish doing work) to make them visible to coworkers.

I see. Well then there are some similarities. Though you can use ours with any editor :)

yours is GREAT!