| 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: |
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| 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. |
