Hi Bernt, My proposal is for an Emacs command, not a shell script. The command would load source for org-mode each time and provide a command that the user can use to provide feedback to git interactively. It should ideally not depend on Magit. It should work in Emacs 22 and later versions.
By the way, I am having trouble loading source with c-u c-c c-x ! . I notice that some commands, such as m-s-right, are still compiled. I also notice that org-crypt.el does not load when I go to dired, mark all .el, and load all marked files. It says (void-function daemonp) . That might or might not be the reason c-u c-c c-x ! fails silently. There might be other issues. Emacs 22. Later versions of Emacs do not work on my computer. Thanks. Samuel