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As a recent convert to git and a long-time Emacs hacker I’m wondering what other serious Emacs/Git hackers recommend for git support in Emacs23. I’ve already started using the VC git backend and find it somewhat of a thin abstraction layer of git’s capabilities. So I’m inclined to try another. Googling turns up a half dozen or so choices in addition to the standard Emacs VC support.
If you prefer magit or egg, why? And if your recommendation has platform dependencies, how so?
I started out using git.el (which comes with Git). The main reason was because I had been used to psvn.el to work with Subversion and I was looking for something similar for Git. And since git.el has compatible key bindings, it was my first stop.
However, I was really starting to enjoy staging my commits (and not staging the complete file, but only chunks) and git.el did not support this properly. To make a long story short: I’m using Magit at the moment and I’m loving it.
To be honest, I haven’t used Magit yet to do e.g. rebasing or merging. I’m still using the command line for that. But my opinion, Magit has a better mapping of the functionality Git has to offer.