[Orgmode] Re: Git recommendations

[Ross Patterson]

Richard Riley <address@hidden> writes:

> Ross Patterson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <address@hidden> 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