# git in emacs 4 messages from 2009-06-25 to 2009-06-29. Participants: Rustom Mody, Jakub Narebski, Alexandre Julliard. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19927 ## Rustom Mody, 2009-06-25 12:35 Subject: git in emacs Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/f46c52560906250535k6a0eb0a5ne05dc327760d14bd%40mail.gmail.com ``` Ive been trying to use git.el in emacs When I checked out an internal commit (I guess that's called a detached head?) then git-status (in emacs) starts giving me Branch: fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref This goes away when I do git reset --hard -- git checkout master [I'm not sure this the best way of restoring the head] But my question is more about git in emacs. I gather that there are 3 options: 1. git.el 2. vc with git backend 3. dvc with git backend Which is best/preferable? Or is it best to stay with the command line? ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2009-06-25 12:59 Subject: Re: git in emacs Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3bpocxyf4.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: ``` Rustom Mody writes: > Ive been trying to use git.el in emacs > > When I checked out an internal commit (I guess that's called a > detached head?) then git-status (in emacs) starts giving me > > Branch: fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref > > This goes away when I do > git reset --hard -- > git checkout master > > [I'm not sure this the best way of restoring the head] This probably means that git.el (which version do you use) should be corrected. > > But my question is more about git in emacs. I gather that there are 3 options: > 1. git.el > 2. vc with git backend > 3. dvc with git backend > > Which is best/preferable? > Or is it best to stay with the command line? See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/Git -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Rustom Mody, 2009-06-25 13:13 Subject: Re: git in emacs Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/f46c52560906250613l3759375dk855632b255ddc6e8%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: > >> Ive been trying to use git.el in emacs >> >> When I checked out an internal commit (I guess that's called a >> detached head?) then git-status (in emacs) starts giving me >> >> Branch:     fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref >> >> This goes away when I do >> git reset --hard -- >> git checkout master >> >> [I'm not sure this the best way of restoring the head] > > This probably means that git.el (which version do you use) should > be corrected. Ok So I had an old version Now its version 1.0 But I still get the same error :-( > >> >> But my question is more about git in emacs. I gather that there are 3 options: >> 1. git.el >> 2. vc with git backend >> 3. dvc with git backend >> >> Which is best/preferable? >> Or is it best to stay with the command line? > > See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/Git > > -- > Jakub Narebski > Poland > ShadeHawk on #git > ``` ## Alexandre Julliard, 2009-06-29 19:50 Subject: Re: git in emacs Message-ID: <87prcmyg3v.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87prcmyg3v.fsf%40wine.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Rustom Mody writes: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> This probably means that git.el (which version do you use) should >> be corrected. > > Ok So I had an old version > Now its version 1.0 > But I still get the same error :-( The version number isn't helpful I'm afraid, they are all called 1.0... You probably still have an old version, detached head support was added quite some time ago. You can get the latest version from the git source tree. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org ```