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diff --git a/contrib/emacs/README b/contrib/emacs/README index 82368bdbff..977a16f1e3 100644 --- a/contrib/emacs/README +++ b/contrib/emacs/README @@ -1,30 +1,24 @@ -This directory contains various modules for Emacs support. +This directory used to contain various modules for Emacs support. -To make the modules available to Emacs, you should add this directory -to your load-path, and then require the modules you want. This can be -done by adding to your .emacs something like this: +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. - (add-to-list 'load-path ".../git/contrib/emacs") - (require 'git) - (require 'git-blame) - - -The following modules are available: +The following modules were available, and can be dug up from the Git +history: * git.el: - Status manager that displays the state of all the files of the - project, and provides easy access to the most frequently used git - commands. The user interface is as far as possible compatible with - the pcl-cvs mode. It can be started with `M-x git-status'. + 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: - Emacs implementation of incremental git-blame. When you turn it on - while viewing a file, the editor buffer will be updated by setting - the background of individual lines to a color that reflects which - commit it comes from. And when you move around the buffer, a - one-line summary will be shown in the echo area. + 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: |