9:54 a.m.
Hi Folks.
Apologies if this has been asked before.
What would you consider the best package to use git from within XEmacs?
Is there a better Emacs git-related package that hasn't yet been ported to
XEmacs?
Thanks!
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5:27 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:54 AM, <gyre(a)kop.org> wrote:
Hi Folks.
Apologies if this has been asked before.
What would you consider the best package to use git from within XEmacs?
Is there a better Emacs git-related package that hasn't yet been ported to
XEmacs?
I don't know what's best but I've used dvcs with xemacs. Had to hack some
changes to make it work but it worked ok.
I'm now currently using git.el. This works pretty well, and I really like
it because it's very similar to pcl-cvs that I used for ages. Some
functionality is missing, though, like dealing with merging of conflicts
because smerge is missing. There was a issue with adding files that I've
hacked around so that it works.
Ray
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5:58 p.m.
gyre(a)kop.org writes:
What would you consider the best package to use git from within
XEmacs?
M-! and M-x shell :-)
Seriously, magit seems to have the most vociferous fans, but I haven't
set it up personally yet, because I really do find git quite usable
just from XEmacs's command-line facilities.
vc.el is a good choice if you are using git because you have to, not
because you want to. :-) But it doesn't provide that great an
interface to the advanced stuff that git does. (AFAIK that's true for
Emacs's version.
Didier Verna's patcher.el isn't really a great git package, but it
provides a lot of nice workflow features that smooth any VCS usage.
AFAIK it doesn't interfere with something like magit, though.
I've used a couple of others but didn't like them well enough to even
remember their names. :-/
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8:34 a.m.
On 21 Sep 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull stated:
gyre(a)kop.org writes:
> What would you consider the best package to use git from within
> XEmacs?
M-! and M-x shell :-)
Seriously, magit seems to have the most vociferous fans, but I haven't
set it up personally yet, because I really do find git quite usable
just from XEmacs's command-line facilities.
Git is extremely usable just from the command line, but with magit
working you can do things like routinely and easily stage changes hunk
by hunk, which is really quite annoying using git add -p. That's
probably its most killer feature, to me (well, that and the equivalent
of easy 'git status' output so it's very hard to forget to 'git add'
something new).
I wouldn't go so far as to say I couldn't work without magit, but it is
very nice to have.
vc.el is a good choice if you are using git because you have to, not
because you want to. :-) But it doesn't provide that great an
interface to the advanced stuff that git does. (AFAIK that's true for
Emacs's version.
Definitely. vc.el is just a bad conceptual fit for modern whole-tree
version control systems, in my view -- it works well for VCing single
files, but it was really designed for SCCS/RCS, and shows it.
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On 22 Sep 2012, at 08:34, Nix <nix(a)esperi.org.uk> wrote:
Git is extremely usable just from the command line, but with magit
working you can do things like routinely and easily stage changes hunk
by hunk, which is really quite annoying using git add -p. That's
probably its most killer feature, to me (well, that and the equivalent
of easy 'git status' output so it's very hard to forget to 'git add'
something new).
I wouldn't go so far as to say I couldn't work without magit, but it is
very nice to have.
I had a brief look at magit before posting. I'd ass-u-me-d that it only worked with
FSF Emacs and wasn't ported to XEmacs.
Thanks.
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:00:47 +0100
gyre <gyre(a)kop.org> wrote:
I had a brief look at magit before posting. I'd ass-u-me-d that
it
only worked with FSF Emacs and wasn't ported to XEmacs.
Me too. I tried to compile magit but always got hung up on (require
'view). Does anybody know where to get a working view for XEmacs?
Cheers,
Sean
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Sean MacLennan writes:
Me too. I tried to compile magit but always got hung up on (require
'view). Does anybody know where to get a working view for XEmacs?
If GNU's doesn't do the trick, there's always
echo "(provide 'view)" >> ~/.xemacs/init.el
;-)
Lisp programmers really ought to learn not to require unnecessary
stuff until it's needed. (I don't promise it will *run*, don'cha
know, but only files containing macros are needed at compile time!)
Steve
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gyre writes:
I had a brief look at magit before posting. I'd ass-u-me-d that
it
only worked with FSF Emacs and wasn't ported to XEmacs.
Well, it probably isn't fully, but I rather doubt it's unusable. If
you have any problems, feel free to report them here. As I say, I
just haven't gotten to it yet, but I'd be happy to help.
(By the way, it's always nice to here form you, nix!)
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On 23 Sep 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull outgrape:
gyre writes:
> I had a brief look at magit before posting. I'd ass-u-me-d that it
> only worked with FSF Emacs and wasn't ported to XEmacs.
Well, it probably isn't fully, but I rather doubt it's unusable. If
you have any problems, feel free to report them here. As I say, I
just haven't gotten to it yet, but I'd be happy to help.
(By the way, it's always nice to here form you, nix!)
:)
(I still read the list, even if tag file support and CEDET have forced
me to switch editors to the competition...)
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