When comparing Magit vs gmaster, the Slant community recommends Magit for most people. In the question“What are the best Git clients for Windows?” Magit is ranked 6th while gmaster is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Magit is:
Simple tasks, such as commits, can quickly be made without leaving the editor.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Uninterrupted workflow for common tasks
Simple tasks, such as commits, can quickly be made without leaving the editor.
Pro Diffs are easy
Since it's integrated with Emacs, diffs are very easy to fix. You can jump right to any file you want to fix as soon as it comes up in the logs or in the status view.
Pro Easy to remember mnemonics
You can easily learn the mnemonics for the most common tasks and use them to your advantage to speed up your workflow.
Pro Better visualization and interactive workflow
Pro Stage hunks or even just parts of a hunk using a single key press
In Magit staging a hunk or even just part of a hunk is very easy.
Magit also implements several other "apply variants" in addition to staging and unstaging. For example: you can also discard or reverse a change, or apply it to the working tree.
Pro Blame information can be viewed inline with the file
Pro Multiple buffers are used to show contextual information
Pro Powerful rebasing
Pro Available in Homebrew
brew install magit
Pro Semantic Diff and Merge Tools for most languages
This includes C#, Java, C, C++, VB.Net, and Delphi.
Pro Visual
Lays out the repository in a visual way that makes sense and paints a clear picture of what is going on.
Pro Native
Not based on web technologies so it doesn't carry the same weight and performance implications.
Cons
Con Useful only for people who use Emacs
Magit is only useful if your text editor of choice is Emacs. It wouldn't really make any sense to open up emacs just to run Magit if you use another editor.
Con Requires registration/account to use (Outdated, not longer correct)
Con No proper Uninstaller
No good way to uninstall the program, at least for the time being.