Re: Magit inclusion into GNU Emacs (was: Making git as easy as CVS, for handling merge conflicts)

[Dmitry Alexandrov]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Would someone like to do the work required to get Magit included in GNU 
> Emacs?  It has to do mainly with copyright assignments.

AFAIU, Jonas Bernoulli <address@hidden>, the maintainer of magit.vc, had 
already stated a couple of years ago, that he is not much interested in 
encumbering the development with copyright assignments:

| The primary downsides of assigning copyright to the FSF that I see is the 
"waiting for papers to be signed" part and that some potential contributors 
will no longer be able to / be willing to contribute.

| > Other than getting papers from contributors, are there ways in which Magit 
becoming part of Emacs would significantly change the development workflow?
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| I would probably get drawn into more lengthy discussions.
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| It's important to note that when Richard said that Magit should be "part of 
Emacs", that really meant "part of GNU Elpa and/or GNU Emacs". If Magit is just 
made part of Elpa (which I believe is all that Richard wants), then that 
doesn't change much. We get protection at the cost of the assignment overhead.
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| But I already wanted to add parts of Magit to Emacs itself anyway. Low-level 
libraries that are useful beyond Magit itself, and which would benefit from 
being built-in. That includes some existing ui libraries but also new libraries 
I intend to write to replace old abstractions used in Magit, such as a 
file-handler for Git blobs and trees. Magit would benefit if other Git related 
packages used those, instead of everyone reinventing the wheel.
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| Once some code is part of Emacs itself it will be more difficult to change 
than if it were living in a separate repository. On the bright side, that would 
likely motivate me to write tools to make that process less painful.
— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14819256

His position might get changed since that, though.  Or yours.

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