Richard Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ross Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Richard Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > Nope. Damn. And why not? Because there was not a link on the Emacs Wiki > for Git interfaces. And it didnt turn up in my basic Google. > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Git > > :-(
Yeah, and I'll add the lack of a *.deb for DVC to that complaint. :( Maybe one of us ought to let the DVC folks know of our complaints... Nah! :) >> It aims to be a common emacs front end for most distributed version >> control systems. > > Thanks for the pointer. > > I'll take a look. I like common interfaces. There's enough key strokes > to remember in emacs as it is. > > But I must say emacs-git impresses me the more I play with it. And git > itself just seems to be a solution that was waiting for a problem to > invent it. It's simply "nice and clean" from what i can gather of it. Well in all honesty, I've barely used git at all and I've only used DVC for hg/mercurial, just thought you might want to get a look at it. :) Ross _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
