On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> wrote:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> >> I use magit (not (yet) on GNU Elpa,
>
...
> The outcome was that I said that I would first have to make a release.
>

I am using Jonas' next branch of magit, easily available from github.
I install it via el-get using a variant recipe:

(:name magit
>        :description "It's Magit! An Emacs mode for Git."
>        :website     "https://github.com/magit/magit#readme"
>        :type        github
>        :pkgname     "magit/magit"
>        :branch      "next"
>        :depends     dash
>        :compile     "magit.*\.el\\'")


It is already eminently  usable.

/john