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Magit vs Mercurial: What are the differences?
What is Magit? It's Magit! A Git Porcelain inside Emacs. Magit is an interface to the version control system Git, implemented as an Emacs package. Magit aspires to be a complete Git porcelain. While we cannot (yet) claim that Magit wraps and improves upon each and every Git command, it is complete enough to allow even experienced Git users to perform almost all of their daily version control tasks directly from within Emacs. While many fine Git clients exist, only Magit and Git itself deserve to be called porcelains.
What is Mercurial? A distributed version control system. Mercurial is dedicated to speed and efficiency with a sane user interface. It is written in Python. Mercurial's implementation and data structures are designed to be fast. You can generate diffs between revisions, or jump back in time within seconds.
Magit and Mercurial can be primarily classified as "Version Control System" tools.
Magit is an open source tool with 4.09K GitHub stars and 599 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Magit's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Magit
- Best parts of GUI and command line git clients combined1
- Word wise diff highlighting1
Pros of Mercurial
- A lot easier to extend than git19
- Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools17
- Works on windows natively without cygwin nonsense13
- Written in python11
- Free9
- Fast8
- Better than Git6
- Best GUI6
- Better than svn4
- Hg inc2
- Good user experience2
- TortoiseHg - Unified free gui for all platforms2
- Consistent UI2
- Easy-to-use2
- Native support to all platforms2
- Free to use1
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Cons of Magit
- Can be slow on big diffs1
Cons of Mercurial
- Track single upstream only0
- Does not distinguish between local and remote head0
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