[Orgmode] Re: Git recommendations

[Ross Patterson]

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

It aims to be a common emacs front end for most distributed version
control systems.

Ross