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Magit vs SVN (Subversion): 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; SVN (Subversion): Enterprise-class centralized version control for the masses. Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations.
Magit and SVN (Subversion) can be primarily classified as "Version Control System" tools.
Magit and SVN (Subversion) are both open source tools. It seems that Magit with 4.09K GitHub stars and 599 forks on GitHub has more adoption than SVN (Subversion) with 331 GitHub stars and 120 GitHub forks.
Pros of Magit
- Best parts of GUI and command line git clients combined1
- Word wise diff highlighting1
Pros of SVN (Subversion)
- Easy to use20
- Simple code versioning13
- User/Access Management5
- Complicated code versionioning by Subversion3
- Free2
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Cons of Magit
- Can be slow on big diffs1
Cons of SVN (Subversion)
- Branching and tagging use tons of disk space7