From: Ross Patterson <me@rpatterson.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Git recommendations
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:53:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874p2xj563.fsf@transitory.lefae.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: nkiqregksu.fsf@development.richardriley.net
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 14:44 Git recommendations Richard Riley
2008-10-27 17:53 ` Ross Patterson [this message]
2008-10-27 18:22 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-27 18:31 ` Ross Patterson
2008-10-27 18:47 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-27 20:51 ` Mykola Nikishov
2008-10-28 18:40 ` Ross Patterson
2008-11-24 19:44 ` Linh Dang
2008-11-24 21:10 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-01 2:29 ` Samuel Wales
2008-12-01 14:25 ` Alex Ott
2008-12-01 15:56 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-07 22:15 ` Samuel Wales
2008-12-08 12:36 ` Tim O'Callaghan
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