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Magit vs Plastic SCM: What are the differences?
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; Plastic SCM: A distributed version control with strong merging, great GUIs and support for huge files. Plastic SCM is a distributed version control designed for big projects It excels on branching and merging, graphical user interfaces, and can also deal with large files and even file-locking (great for game devs).
It includes "semantic" features like refactor detection to ease diffing complex refactors..
Magit and Plastic SCM can be categorized 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 Plastic SCM
- Wanna do Branch per Task Dev? Plastic rocks it8
- No Size limite4
- File Locking2
- Simple, easy to use interfaces. Resilient and solid2
- Very fast1
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Cons of Magit
- Can be slow on big diffs1
Cons of Plastic SCM
- Always uses automatic conflict resolution first1
- Adds files with only changed timestamp to pending1
- Keyboard shortcuts are lacking1
- Can't place windows next to each other to save space1
- No dark theme1
- Doesn't have file staging1
