on Tue Mar 20 2012, Bjørn Roald <bjorn-AT-4roald.org> wrote:
On emacs I have settled with egg.el which work on all platforms and support most of my tasks. So even if there are alternatives I have not tried, I have no need to look further.
IMO you absolutely *must* try Magit if you are an emacs user. Oh, wow, egg calls itself a "clone of Marius' excellent magit." According to http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-vcs/EmacsGit.html#sec18 it adds Windows portability to magit, so that's something interesting. I wish the differences were more clearly laid out. Well, according to https://github.com/bogolisk/egg/commits/master, egg hasn't been changed in 3 years, while https://github.com/magit/magit/commits/master shows that magit is still quite actively maintained.
Well, if I had to choose I would go for Git, without really having any strong opinion against Hg. One of my main reasons would be the fact that even as Git has been solid all along for us, it has improved a lot on its support for its weaker aspects over the last few years. I strongly feel any remaining problems, if any, that should concern boost will be fixed sooner rather than later.
And this rate of improvement is in no small measure due to Git's popularity. It's a self-reinforcing cycle. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com