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I would like to manually edit the Git command run by a Magit popup. Is there a way to do this?

For example, in magit-log-popup, I want to add --date default to the git log command that Magit is going to run. The --date option is not one of the options supported by the log popup.

UPDATE: Feature request: https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2700.

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    Log a feature request for manual editing of the final command as a generic option? It would be nice to have it as an option everywhere. I would suggest that : could be bound in pop-ups to set an option that gets picked up by the eventual "execute the command" code (which then provides the interactive prompt).
    – phils
    Jun 14, 2016 at 22:53
  • @phils: Good idea; done: github.com/magit/magit/issues/2700 !
    – ntc2
    Jun 14, 2016 at 23:26

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I likely won't be adding this feature to the current implementation in magit-popup.el but I will consider adding it to the planned successor transient. See the open issue #2700 on Github for more information.

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You can simply add your own option to the popup

(magit-define-popup-option 'magit-log-popup
  ?D "Date" "--date=" #'read-from-minibuffer)

Now when the popup is open and you press =D you can enter the date option that you would like.

You can learn more on the magit wiki

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    Thanks, but there is a one-off way to do this, by directly editing the Git command that Magit is going to use? E.g. now I would also like to add --pickaxe-regex, but I don't want to add another magit-define-popup-option for every new option.
    – ntc2
    Jun 14, 2016 at 21:50
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    I'm not in front of my computer but what if you make an option that has an empty 4th argument so instead of "--date=" you had "". Then when you prompted you enter anything you want
    – Jules
    Jun 15, 2016 at 3:29
  • Interesting idea, but I think quoting cretes a problem here: it seems that Magit quotes the argument to the option, so e.g. --date default becomes "--date default".
    – ntc2
    Jun 15, 2016 at 19:15
  • @ntc2 So having (magit-define-popup-option 'magit-log-popup ?G "General" "" #'read-from-minibuffer) and then typing "--date=default" in the prompt would not work?
    – Jules
    Jun 15, 2016 at 19:18
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    Adding this feature to Magit, as suggested by phils, seems like a good way to go.
    – ntc2
    Jun 15, 2016 at 22:40

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