From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: git mode for emacs Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:11 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <78211629-80f8-44ad-9d8d-446fe191c739@a37g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246077999 26843 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2009 04:46:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:46:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 27 06:46:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MKPo3-0004Yf-HK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:46:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47510 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKPo2-0001wD-Mw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:46:26 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 58 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+IQaQXuVV4EagivkrgRqawpCoTyFQZXh4Fiu4crMGZHZfIbQvY2dlBxv6tpbNex1gohbwNtc6eXDnKgq7wJfRRYvFiELaZXIDMqw5X3A/wjoBPCTQkFDU9ONJz3moUKCU= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@motzarella.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:14:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18GOui7M3RM4kCprSdPa/zGF2hVxGhUBbKQTQeXNh1y9g== Cancel-Lock: sha1:xhHmBHZM+LzqyDJZ6/BAxUwxcxM= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170356 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:41:26 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65579 Archived-At: Thierry Volpiatto writes: > Hi, > > rustom writes: > >> Can anyone give some tips on which git mode works for emacs? >> I tried git.el but it seems to be broken -- my report at >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/122295 >> >> Im looking at dvc but its really obese and does not even have an entry >> on how to configure to use the git backend!! I too found DVC hard to use but that was a while back. > > There is nothing to do in DVC to configure git backend. > To configure DVC you can have a look at my init file here: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/dvc-init.el > > The support for git is actually really good in DVC. > > NOTE : The manual is completely deprecated, > so you have better look at docstrings of functions or ask here or better > on the DVC mailing list. > > Hope it help ;-) > >> ------------------------ >> Well... >> I typed this and then tried google and got Richard's pages on git >> +emacs. [Thanks Richard] >> I tried magit and its broken under windows as is git.el >> Right now I'm on linux and egg seems to be good. >> >> Anyone with experience of egg on windows? >> I started to write a tutorial for using DVC with emacs and git. Unfortunately I found DVC non too intuitive compared to, say, magit. Possibly it has come on since. http://richardriley.net/projects/emacs/git/dvc-tutorial/index Possibly it will help. My original favorite was egg, as it is very comprehensive if a bit colorful. http://github.com/bogolisk/egg/tree/master I now use magit: http://zagadka.vm.bytemark.co.uk/magit/