Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > > We have a problem in Emacs: it doesn't contain a good interface to
  > > git. 

  > I get on just fine with Emacs VC and git. It enables me to do just what
  > I did with other VCS in Emacs, and I appreciate the uniformity of
  > interface. Obviously, many people prefer a more featureful interface to
  > git's many bells and whistles, and that's fine. But IMO your statement
  > is an exaggeration.

I'm not stating a personal opinion about VC or Magit.  (I don't have
one.)  I'm citing what other people generally say on this list.

When people ask here what they should do to use git with Emacs, the
usual answer posted is "use Magit".  Thus the problem: that the usual
way people recommend to use Emacs with Git is via a package we have
been unable to include in Emacs.

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