How do I make Magit use the active window for operations and, on-exit, return the window to the previous buffer?

Question

I am a recent newcomer to emacs, and I have my screen split into 4 windows in a grid arrangement. I'm having some problems using Magit, which is that it spawns (seemingly arbitrarily) in one of the 4 windows, and on completion of the task, it deletes the window it spawned in. (Making the layout 1x2 with one of the windows taking the space of two.)

What I'd like in terms of workflow, is that when I want to use Magit, I would navigate to the window I want Magit to spawn in, press C-x g, and for the window to appear in the selected buffer, then once my work is complete and magit-mode goes away, I would like it to go back to the state it was before being called.

How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

Sounds like you want to M-x customize magit-bury-buffer-function and set it to magit-restore-window-configuration (which my manual claims is the default, but that seems not to be true).