| This directory used to contain various modules for Emacs support. | |
| These were added shortly after Git was first released. Since then | |
| Emacs's own support for Git got better than what was offered by these | |
| modes. There are also popular 3rd-party Git modes such as Magit which | |
| offer replacements for these. | |
| The following modules were available, and can be dug up from the Git | |
| history: | |
| * git.el: | |
| Wrapper for "git status" that provided access to other git commands. | |
| Modern alternatives to this include Magit, and VC mode that ships | |
| with Emacs. | |
| * git-blame.el: | |
| A wrapper for "git blame" written before Emacs's own vc-annotate | |
| mode learned to invoke git-blame, which can be done via C-x v g. | |
| * vc-git.el: | |
| This file used to contain the VC-mode backend for git, but it is no | |
| longer distributed with git. It is now maintained as part of Emacs | |
| and included in standard Emacs distributions starting from version | |
| 22.2. | |
| If you have an earlier Emacs version, upgrading to Emacs 22 is | |
| recommended, since the VC mode in older Emacs is not generic enough | |
| to be able to support git in a reasonable manner, and no attempt has | |
| been made to backport vc-git.el. |