Magit is an interface to Git for Emacs. Unlike Emacs's native version control support, Magit can take advantage of Git's native features without breaking compatibility with other systems.
To get started see the Magit User Manual or perhaps the cheatsheet if you're in a hurry. There's also an excellent Magit screencast by Alex Vollmer which demonstrates some of the major features.
Download the latest tarball from the github download page, then Magit can be installed with the popular recipe of:
make && sudo make install
This will put magit.el into /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp, where
Emacs should be able to find it. Then add
(require 'magit)
to your .emacs file.
Magit also now supports extensions:
(require 'magit-svn) - integrates with git-svn. Hit 'N' to see your
options.
(require 'magit-topgit) - integrates with topgit.
To get started with Magit, open any file in a Git repository in Emacs
and run M-x magit-status. Read the short help for magit-mode (C-h m in the Magit buffer), make some changes to your files, and try to
commit them.
The Magit User Manual describes things with more words than
the online help. You can read it in Emacs with C-u C-h i magit.info, or on the web.
If you have any questions, please use the mailing list at Google Groups.
Magit's website is currently hosted on GitHub.
Magit was started by Marius Vollmer. Phil Jackson is the lead
developer. For a full list of contributors have a look at magit.el
in the source distribution.
Magit's canonical source repository is currently hosted on GitHub.