I think you answered a different question from what GP was asking. The question for most people, which is answered in neither the article nor the email threads

I think you answered a different question from what GP was asking. The question for most people, which is answered in neither the article nor the email threads in emacs-devel, is why this stuff needs to be "in Emacs". What is wrong with it being a third-party package? For example, these quotes from Stallman: > We have a problem in Emacs: it doesn't contain a good interface to git. People often recommend something that is not in Emacs. That's not a good situation. > When people ask here what they should do to use git with Emacs, the usual answer posted is "use Magit". Thus the problem: that the usual way people recommend to use Emacs with Git is via a package we have been unable to include in Emacs. The obvious question is: what is wrong with using a package that is not in core Emacs? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-07/msg00109.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-07/msg00... https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-07/msg00105.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-07/msg00...