I think they serve a mostly different purpose. Fugitive provides vim integration, but you're supposed to use the stock CLI for a lot of operations. Magit, on th

I think they serve a mostly different purpose. Fugitive provides vim integration, but you're supposed to use the stock CLI for a lot of operations. Magit, on the other hand, strives to provide an alternative interface for git. The surprising thing about Magit is that while it does provide an alternative interface, it does it in a way that's flexible enough that you won't have to constantly fall back to the CLI. Plus, its UI has good discoverability. What I find superior about Magit is that it has asynchronous git blame. With Fugitive, git blame can take an unpredictably long amount of time with large repositories. It also used to be that this made vim unresponsive to any form of input and the only way to interrupt it was to terminate the vim process externally. This fortunately isn't the case now with recent versions of Fugitive, but it still blocks the editor unless you interrupt it. Magit doesn't have this issue and can show the git blame results as it's being computed. In terms of cost to entry though, I think Fugitive is better in this regard. With Fugitive, you can get started almost immediately if you're familiar with the git CLI. On the other hand, you would sometimes need to look up how to accomplish some things with Magit because it sometimes uses different terminology from stock git.