1This directory used to contain various modules for Emacs support. 2 3These were added shortly after Git was first released. Since then 4Emacs's own support for Git got better than what was offered by these 5modes. There are also popular 3rd-party Git modes such as Magit which 6offer replacements for these. 7 8The following modules were available, and can be dug up from the Git 9history: 10 11* git.el: 12 13 Wrapper for "git status" that provided access to other git commands. 14 15 Modern alternatives to this include Magit, and VC mode that ships 16 with Emacs. 17 18* git-blame.el: 19 20 A wrapper for "git blame" written before Emacs's own vc-annotate 21 mode learned to invoke git-blame, which can be done via C-x v g. 22 23* vc-git.el: 24 25 This file used to contain the VC-mode backend for git, but it is no 26 longer distributed with git. It is now maintained as part of Emacs 27 and included in standard Emacs distributions starting from version 28 22.2. 29 30 If you have an earlier Emacs version, upgrading to Emacs 22 is 31 recommended, since the VC mode in older Emacs is not generic enough 32 to be able to support git in a reasonable manner, and no attempt has 33 been made to backport vc-git.el.