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   1This directory contains various modules for Emacs support.
   2
   3To make the modules available to Emacs, you should add this directory
   4to your load-path, and then require the modules you want. This can be
   5done by adding to your .emacs something like this:
   6
   7  (add-to-list 'load-path ".../git/contrib/emacs")
   8  (require 'git)
   9  (require 'git-blame)
  10
  11
  12The following modules are available:
  13
  14* git.el:
  15
  16  Status manager that displays the state of all the files of the
  17  project, and provides easy access to the most frequently used git
  18  commands. The user interface is as far as possible compatible with
  19  the pcl-cvs mode. It can be started with `M-x git-status'.
  20
  21* git-blame.el:
  22
  23  Emacs implementation of incremental git-blame.  When you turn it on
  24  while viewing a file, the editor buffer will be updated by setting
  25  the background of individual lines to a color that reflects which
  26  commit it comes from.  And when you move around the buffer, a
  27  one-line summary will be shown in the echo area.
  28
  29* vc-git.el:
  30
  31  This file used to contain the VC-mode backend for git, but it is no
  32  longer distributed with git. It is now maintained as part of Emacs
  33  and included in standard Emacs distributions starting from version
  34  22.2.
  35
  36  If you have an earlier Emacs version, upgrading to Emacs 22 is
  37  recommended, since the VC mode in older Emacs is not generic enough
  38  to be able to support git in a reasonable manner, and no attempt has
  39  been made to backport vc-git.el.