The only git mode for emacs currently available in gentoo is git.el via git and USE=emacs. There's also magit: http://zagadka.vm.bytemark.co.uk/magit/ and egg: http://github.com/bogolisk/egg/ which is a fork of the former and probably more.
Standard question, is there a released version?
don't think so, unfortunately :/
(In reply to comment #2) > don't think so, unfortunately :/ > nvm that: http://gitorious.org/projects/magit/repos/mainline/commits/b4b0a8bffc393137d3a52d62bc92c762a77067e9
That's a version tag, not a release. ;-) Is there no tarball?
I believe there is no tarball, yes. The installation instructions have one clone the git repository.
Normally we (Gentoo Emacs team) are very reluctant to add live or snapshot packages, because it means additional workload for every version bump. So, please convince upstream to provide a tarball. Or give some good arguments why we should make an exception for this package. After all, VC in Emacs has a GIT backend already, and also dev-util/git installs Emacs support files.
(In reply to comment #6) > Normally we (Gentoo Emacs team) are very reluctant to add live or snapshot > packages, because it means additional workload for every version bump. In dVCS world it is quite common, to just tag a release branch and let people check it out...I think that will be release policy of the future (GLIBC does exactly that, we only have snapshots from the stable branch).
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > Normally we (Gentoo Emacs team) are very reluctant to add live or snapshot > > packages, because it means additional workload for every version bump. > > In dVCS world it is quite common, to just tag a release branch and let people > check it out...I think that will be release policy of the future (GLIBC does > exactly that, we only have snapshots from the stable branch). And this does not mean that I like it. Even local maintenance of programs from LaunchPad is tedious work, so I think using the git.eclass is a feasible way to avoid creating tarballs on our own.
It has tarball now, here is link from project homepage: http://zagadka.vm.bytemark.co.uk/magit/magit-0.7.tar.gz
(In reply to comment #9) > It has tarball now, here is link from project homepage: > http://zagadka.vm.bytemark.co.uk/magit/magit-0.7.tar.gz Committed to Emacs overlay.
Added to Portage tree.
