Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 28, 2007, 09:02 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk5sksxxr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <85zm1g3nze.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> I'd like to see some changes for mergetool's Emacs support: in
> moderately current versions of Emacs and XEmacs, ediff is a much
> preferable tool to emerge.

Between ediff and emerge, I think Ted gave a well thought out analysis on the list earlier, so you might want to consider the issues he raised if/when you tackle this.

This is late in the game, however, so your change probably won't be merged before I can tag 1.5.3 final, but I'd expect that a better Emacs support will be widely welcomed.

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