Yet another "emacs-git" mode on emacs

Yet another "emacs-git" mode on emacs

[tsgatesv]

Hi!

I has written yet another git mode on Emacs in order to contribute to
the git organization.

I expected the below

 1. Understanding git
 2. Use friend and powerful mode for emacs
 3. Introduce myself to you :-)

Actually, I followed the suggestion listed on the soc 2008 ideas.

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Better Emacs integration
Make git mode for Emacs full featured git GUI, and not only commit tool,
following ideas of PCL-CVS... and its limitation. Existing is today
git.el, which is very limited in features, and DVC
(http://download.gna.org/dvc), which still doesn't take full advantage
of Git's capabilities. Merging git.el and DVC would probably be a good
start. Other git GUIs, like git-gui, gitk, qgit, tig could also be
inspiration for features. 

Goal: Allow creating and switching branches, examining history, merging,
fetching etc. from withing Emacs. Should include modes for git config
file format and format-patch patches. 
Language: Emacs Lisp 
Suggested mentors: 

      * Alexandre Julliard 
      * David Kagedal 


Possible Co-mentor: 

      * Matthieu Moy 
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Introduction & guided tour is on the links below.

Tour   : http://tsgates.cafe24.com/git/git-emacs.html 
Source : http://tsgates.cafe24.com/git/git-emacs-1.0.tar.gz

I happy to get a bug reports and any suggestions!

Since it is my first experience of contributing to open source, if there
are any misunderstandings or fallacies, please inform me anytime!

Re: Yet another "emacs-git" mode on emacs

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> I has written yet another git mode on Emacs in order to contribute to
> the git organization.

hmm... Sounds great! where's your git repos :) 

regards,
	junichi
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Re: Yet another "emacs-git" mode on emacs

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

One thing that stood out in your guided tour is the "Commit with an
automatically generated log message" if there are files not "up to date"
(which I guess means index does not match HEAD, OR working dir does not
match index).  It seems that this is almost certainly a bad feature to
have.

More generally, it seems that your package does not have the right
conceptual organization with respect to the index.  (The lack of the
word index in the guided tour document provides strong evidence of
this.)

Git is in many ways much more powerful than other version control
systems, but much of this power comes from having a more complicated
conceptual framework (in particular, it has the concept of the index,
which seems to be fairly unique to git).  In designing an Emacs UI for
git that can support all of its functionality, the same conceptual
organization must be used as git itself has.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard

Re: Yet another "emacs-git" mode on emacs

[Michael Olson]

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tsgatesv <tsgatesv@gmail.com> writes:

> Make git mode for Emacs full featured git GUI, and not only commit
> tool, following ideas of PCL-CVS... and its limitation. Existing is
> today git.el, which is very limited in features, and DVC
> (http://download.gna.org/dvc), which still doesn't take full advantage
> of Git's capabilities. Merging git.el and DVC would probably be a good
> start. Other git GUIs, like git-gui, gitk, qgit, tig could also be
> inspiration for features.
>
> Goal: Allow creating and switching branches, examining history,
> merging, fetching etc. from withing Emacs. Should include modes for
> git config file format and format-patch patches.

This sounds interesting -- I'll check it out.  I'd definitely like to
make it easy to merge branches from DVC, perhaps by improving the
DVC-Bookmarks mode.

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