I thought it would be a good idea to create a pull request[1] and ping the group about this. No one volunteered in [2] to maintain support for Emacs 21, and the Debian package of Magit 1.0.0 [3] depends on Emacs23.
Comments? [1] https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/195 [2] http://groups.google.com/group/magit/browse_thread/thread/a76a51b0e85a9e86/14aa076979e52e69?lnk=gst&q=older+emacs [3] http://packages.debian.org/sid/magit ===PATCH=== Rémi already told the Debian maintainers that we aren't supporting XEmacs 21 on Debian's bug tracker. This adds that info to the documentation so we can close #145 on our issue tracker as well [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619480 Modified README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d156db9..430f104 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,9 +1,12 @@ It's Magit! An Emacs mode for Git. =================================== -Magit is an interface to Git for Emacs. Unlike Emacs's native -[version control support][vc], Magit can take advantage of Git's -native features without breaking compatibility with other systems. +Magit is an interface to Git for Emacs, supporting GNU Emacs 22 or +later. + + Unlike Emacs's native [version control support][vc], Magit can take +advantage of Git's native features without breaking compatibility with +other systems. To get started see the [Magit User Manual][manual] or perhaps the [cheatsheet][cheatsheet] if you're in a hurry. There's also an Modified magit.texi diff --git a/magit.texi b/magit.texi index 02b27ec..ebd8b9a 100644 --- a/magit.texi +++ b/magit.texi @@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ Texts. @top Magit User Manual Magit is an interface to the version control system Git, implemented -as an extension to Emacs. +as an extension to Emacs. Magit supports GNU Emacs version 22 or +later. It may work with other emacsen, but Magit developers do not +intend to investigate and fix bugs that only appear in unsupported +versions. @menu * Introduction::
