Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used for many high profile open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.

Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.

This transitional package provides two modules that previously could be used for integration with Emacs: git.el and git-blame.el. Now the modules print an error message with instructions that users can use to migrate to Emacs's VC-mode backend for Git or Magit.