From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:02:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499357117 31884 195.159.176.226 (6 Jul 2017 16:05:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 16:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 06 18:05:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9HD-0007wc-0k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:05:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9HG-0002m1-Se for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46123) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9Ej-0001KF-9V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9Ei-00035J-H0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9Ed-00032C-Qn; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9Ed-0001mS-6R; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:02:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Wed, 05 Jul 2017 21:50:23 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216233 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.