From: Ross Patterson <me@rpatterson.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Git recommendations
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:31:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skqhhotl.fsf@transitory.lefae.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: qtzaxvqx0.fsf@development.richardriley.net
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
> Ross Patterson <me@rpatterson.net> writes:
>
>> 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
>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 18:34 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
2008-10-27 18:22 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-27 18:31 ` Ross Patterson [this message]
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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