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Emacs Lisp2010–2012
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Emacs Got Git. This is a clone of Marius's excellent magit. Egg is an emacs interface to git.

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What it is

Emacs Got Git. This is a clone of Marius's excellent magit. Egg is an emacs interface to git.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

but only if you aren't working primarily on Windows Again, I'll admit I'm biased (I'm mostly a Linux guy), but for the day job, they are currently paying me to develop stuff…

npsimons used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-09-09 16:59:08 UTC to 2012-11-30 18:40:42 UTC.

012010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 20102010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 20112011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 2012

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 20102010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20102010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20102010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20102010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20112011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20112011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20112011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20112011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20112011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 20112011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20112011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20112011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20112011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20112011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20112011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20122012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20122012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20122012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20122012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20122012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20122012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20122012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

4 sources
npsimons·Nov 30, 2012Recommendation phrase
but only if you aren't working primarily on Windows Again, I'll admit I'm biased (I'm mostly a Linux guy), but for the day job, they are currently paying me to develop stuff for Windows, and both myself (via Cygwin), and my current coding partner (via MSysGit) have no issues whatsoever with Git in Windows. A previous team member also quickly adapted to Git via TortoiseGit. The flexibility of being able to rewrite history, the staging area, stashes and branching quickly are just too powerful, and being both code monkeys and CLI junkies, we don't miss the "integration" much (albeit, I love EGG: https://github.com/byplayer/egg).
In Why did Git become so popular?
jedbrown·Jun 12, 2011
The most common scenario for me is that while implementing one feature, I find a documentation error or a simple way to improve a component that is used by the new code. For example, I might be testing the new feature and have a bug in my new code produce a confusing error that could have been caught earlier by the existing component if its input validation was better. Usually I fix these issues on the spot because (a) they help me test the new feature and (b) otherwise I would be likely to forget where they are. I want to commit these changes independently. I almost always do this using egg (https://github.com/byplayer/egg) which has a very slick staging and commit interface within Emacs.
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