Hi, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote[1]: > The git-blame.el mode has been superseded by Emacs's own > vc-annotate (invoked by C-x v g). Users of the git.el mode are now > much better off using either Magit or the Git backend for Emacs's own > VC mode. > > These modes were added over 10 years ago when Emacs's own Git support > was much less mature, and there weren't other mature modes in the wild > or shipped with Emacs itself. > > These days these modes have few if any users, and users of git aren't > well served by us shipping these (some OS's install them alongside git > by default, which is confusing and leads users astray). > > So let's remove these per Alexandre Julliard's message to the > ML[1]. If someone still wants these for some reason they're better > served by hosting these elsewhere (e.g. on ELPA), instead of us > distributing them with git. The trouble with removing these so abruptly is that it makes for a bad user experience. Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/home/jrn/.emacs’: File error: Cannot open load file, No such file or directory, git In some sense that is the distributor's fault: just because Git upstream stops removing the git.el file doesn't mean that the distributor needs to. But the same thing would happen if the user symlinked git.el into a place that emacs could find when using upstream Git directly. And we are putting the distributor in a bad place. Ami Fischman (cc-ed) writes: | IMO a placeholder git.el that did something like: | | (error "git.el is no more; replace (require 'git) with (require 'magit) or | simply delete the former in your initialization file(s)") | | ideally with a pointer to a short URL explaining the rationale would have | been fine. | (note that though I've seen | https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893734 I'm _still_ unclear | as to why the change was made; you might want to clarify in that bug and | point to it from this, or something else) What do you think? Would adding such a placeholder during a transitional period work well for you? Thanks, Jonathan [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20180310184545.16950-1-avarab@xxxxxxxxx/
