Re: git mode for emacs

[Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>]

Hi!

> 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

I'm git.el (1.0), vc-git (part of emacs) and gitsum (0.2). All work
fine with Emacs 23.0.91.1 under Ubuntu here. vc-git is fine for
operations on a single file and mostly gets out of you way. git.el is
more useful when you're in "version control mode", for operations on a
the file tree. gitsum allows you to select what chunks to group into a
commit. There's no reason why you can't use several packages in
parallel and use each one what what it does best. See 

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Git

for an overview.

For troubleshooting your problem: what emacs version are you using?
Did you upgrade recently? Any stale byte compiled git.elc lying
around? What happens if you start emacs without customizations 
(emacs -Q) and load git.el with M-x load-file?

> Im looking at dvc but its really obese and does not even have an entry
> on how to configure to use the git backend!!
>
> ------------------------
> 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?

This link

http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/en/writings/emacs-vcs/EmacsGit.html#sec18 

mentions that egg contains windows-specific fixes. You should try
it. 8-)

Regards, 

Anselm


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Anselm Helbig 
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