From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:46:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Git vc-git.el versus Emacs vc-git.el versus Gits git.el
Message-ID: <7v63jrbehl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87ab93yfjx.fsf@wine.dyndns.org>

Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> writes:

>>  2. There is a vc-git.el in the Emacs top-of-trunk sources, and
>>     another one in the git/contrib/emacs directory in the Git
>>     sources. Which one should I use?  If I should use the one in
>>     Emacs, then why is there one in the Git source tree?
>
> The most recent one is the one in the Emacs trunk, so you should use
> this if possible. The one in the Git tree is an older version that's no
> longer maintained, though it can still be useful if you are running an
> old Emacs version.

A patch to add contrib/emacs/README to hold this info would be nice.