From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ross Patterson Subject: Re: Git recommendations Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:53:24 -0700 Message-ID: <874p2xj563.fsf@transitory.lefae.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KuWHh-0002Xy-RC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:53:45 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KuWHf-0002XU-1H for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:53:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35152 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KuWHe-0002XP-U1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:53:42 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49362 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KuWHe-0003Ww-8q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:53:42 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KuWHV-0000qg-RG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:53:33 +0000 Received: from rpatterson.net ([69.12.174.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:53:33 +0000 Received: from me by rpatterson.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:53:33 +0000 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Richard Riley writes: > I've just spent a short time giving the crash test dummy procedure to a > few git interfaces for emacs. All have their benefits. A lot have their > negatives, But my immediate favourite for anyone thinking of using emacs > interface to git for org is the following: > > http://tsgates.cafe24.com/git/git-emacs.html#sec1 > > It doesn't come with a lot of default key bindings but the two most > important for those familiar with vc-backend are there: > > C-x v v > and > C-x v = > > git-diff interfaces nicely to ediff. > > And the best thing is the one key press from git-status to bring up the > wonderful "gitk" GUI interface which I wasn't aware of! Truly brilliant > admin interface for git external to emacs. > > The best part of all is that it provides simple easy to see icons in the > emacs status bar to show the git status. magic and egg tend to > git-status centric as opposed to file centric. emacs-git is a nice > mixture. It palms off the log/history interface to gitk - no need to > reinvent the wheel. > > Simple, powerful, extensible. Recommended. > > Oh, but missing staging .... which magit and egg support but vc-git, > git.el and emacs-git do not. I think ... I'm curious, did you evaluate dvc? http://www.xsteve.at/prg/emacs_dvc/dvc.html It aims to be a common emacs front end for most distributed version control systems. Ross