Questions tagged [git]
is for Emacs support of Git, the distributed version control system. Emacs `version-control` feature supports many systems besides Git. Additional extensions, such as `Magit`, also provide extensive Git support. Therefore use additional tags besides `git` for Git related questions.
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How to match the nondirectory part of a filename with a regular expression?
Whats the correct way to match a filename from a full path using string-match.
Say I want to check if the file is a git commit message COMMIT_EDITMSG, matching:
eg: (string-match my-clever-regex "/...
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How to search certain subdirectories of directories that are ignored by Git
I'm working in a Scala project that has target/ directories entered as ignored in the .gitignore. However, there is also Scala code being generated during the build which is being nested under a ...
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Magit: Howto create a new commit ignoring white-space differences
I'm using magit 20191128.39 on Emacs 26.3
When changing a python script resulting in a new unstaged change, git/magit should ignore whitespace-differences. A git diff -w will do the trick, but I'd ...
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How to abort an ediff merge?
I use ediff to merge mercurial conflicts (and sometimes git conflicts), but I can't seem to abort. Ediff pops up as soon as a conflict is detected, and quitting and not saving results in mercurial ...
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el-get Basic Setup (https://github.com/dimitri/el-get) : error: Unable to find 'git'
Start Emacs from gitbash (MINGW64)
Snippet below is loaded automatically:
; add el-get to the load path, and install it if it doesn't exist
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get")
(...
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Git status on modeline to indicate if behind remote?
Can I get Emacs to indicate on the mode-line whether a push is needed, i.e. whether the repo is out of sync with origin?
I've already got it telling me if a commit is needed using vc-status, but that ...
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Magit pull with merge/rebase from upstream/pushRemote
I have upstream set to the develop branch (say origin/master) and pushRemote to a feature branch.
I currently use pulling with preserving rebase.
I would like to setup magit in such a way that:
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What is the equivalent of doing a plain `git reset <sha>` in magit?
I sometimes want to undo a commit without losing the changes, but just placing them back into an uncommitted and unstaged state. To do that at the cli, I do just git reset <sha-of-previous-commit&...
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Doing grep on files after doing helm-grep-do-git-grep?
For example, you helm-grep-do-git-grep with foo
Helm will give you list of matching lines.
Let's assume there are 100 matching lines in 12 files.
I want to do helm-grep-do-git-grep with bar on those ...
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When I use emerge as a git difftool how can I get the output file?
I try to merge two commits using git in MSYS2. I need to do it manually, because I need to recover accidently removed text from a previous commit and automatic merging always removes it. I use
git ...
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Magit merging changes manually
When I do merge preview m p I see a log of other branch changes for each affected file. Changes marked like this:
@@ -20,6 + 22,7 @@
- <change>
+ <change>
To merge only a ...
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How can I back up my init file with Git?
The docs say to keep the .emacs file in the HOME directory.
I'd like to share the file between multiple computers using a git repo. What is the best way to structure the repo without including ...
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Cannot get Magit to show the commit signatures in the log
In order to prove that I had a signature on a commit I needed to use a this command line command:
$ git log --show-signature -1
I could not get Magit to display the signature
I tried to use the ...
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how to get line wrap to had return at puncuation
I've see a few similar questions:
Editing files with one-sentence-per-line
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41637313/how-to-make-a-function-that-straights-out-each-sentence-in-a-paragraph-to-...
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Is there is an existing parser for `.gitignore` files?
Is there is an existing parser for .gitignore files? Maybe there is some Elisp package that includes something like this?
Ideally, I would like to be able to read a .gitignore file in a given ...
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Can magit pull hunks from another commit into my branch?
I have a big commit on another git branch. I'd like to "cherry-pick" some hunks from that commit into my current branch. I bet magit can do that, but I'm not sure how. Anyone? (I've seen ways to ...
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Disabling automatic add after resolving git conflict
After updating emacs (to 25.2.2 as shipping in ubuntu 18.04) I notice a change that completely breaks my conflict resolution flow in git. Once I resolve a conflict using emacs and save the file, emacs ...
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how to copy a deeply nested binary file from one git repo to another [closed]
I want to copy an image file from one github repo to another. The source and destination file paths are deeply nested within the repo (eg. copy ~/code/repo1/src/components/A/components/B/common/...
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How to specify multiple patch files to be applied by Magit?
The Magit user manual says in the description of `w w' (magit-am-apply-patches):
w w (magit-am-apply-patches)
This command applies one or more patches. If the region marks files, then those ...
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Package to help display status of each git repo contained in a common directory
I have a directory and in the directory is a rather long list of git repositories. Is there a package or options where a dired listing of the directory would also add in the status of each git repo ...
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Connection problem to Github
When I try to evaluate a Quelpa expression that fetches a package from Github, it throws the following error
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Command ’(env LC_ALL=C git clone https://github.com/...
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How to ask magit to use external diff and merge tools?
I have set the git variables [merge] and [diff] to the appropriate values like
this:
[merge]
keepBackup = false;
tool = p4merge
[mergetool]
prompt = false
[mergetool "p4merge"]
cmd = ...
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Alternatives to Git on Windows due to its slowness
I am forced to use Windows 10 on my job, so I use native Win32 Emacs.
Also use Emacs on WSL (compiled from emacs mirror though tried the default Ubuntu 18.04 too).
I tend to use more the one on WSL, ...
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How to configure git and magit to stream line making pull requests?
From the main repository on github, I created a fork on github and I keep the master branch of my fork up to date with the main repository by doing:
git checkout master
git pull upstream master
git ...
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How to prevent Magit from saving COMMIT_EDITMSG?
When I hit c c in the Magit buffer it opens the commit message buffer. Then I write my message and type C-c C-c to close it. For some reason it saves .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG and every next time when I hit ...
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How to detect programmatically if content under org-mode headline is encrypted or not before a save or commit?
org-mode allows users to encrypt the contents under a headline by adding the crypt tag with C-c C-q crypt and then calling M-x org-encrypt-entry.
Below is an example using this feature:
* Headline ...
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Show Git gutter after linenumbers
I am using emacs-nox and as some of you know there are always some problems if you want to display you line numbers while also using git-gutter.
(Stuff like some extra margin jumping numbers etc.)
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How to diff a single, unstaged file in magit-status?
How can I display a diff for the actually selected file in magit-status? What can I do in
do display a diff of build/conf/local.conf?
With the now deprecated git-status, I could run git-diff-file (...
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Nested git repositories that behave like one project with projectile
I am trying to understand how to use https://projectile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/projects/#customizing-project-root-files but it is not clear yet.
My goal is to have nested git projects. Let's say I ...
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How to get sorted output from counsel-git-grep with ivy?
When using git-grep, the output isn't sorted alphabetically which makes navigating the results more tedious then it should be.
Is there a way to sort the output?
I checked git-grep and it seems ...
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Magit commit mode does not open anything to edit with
I recently installed Magit and began running it. It appears to load just find and all keybindings seem to work perfectly. However, when I intend to commit changes, magit doesn't seem to open my ...
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pipe buffer contents to shell as pseudo-file
I'd like to use wdiff to compare the contents of the current buffer to a previous version of the file the buffer is visiting. So, this would be a word-level live diff of the current buffer against a ...
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Recover/undo discarded changes in git/magit on unstaged files
I accidentally pressed "k" (a magit command) and discarded some unstaged changes. Is there a way to undo this? Or did I discover one of the few ways to actually lose work while using git?
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Magit: patches that ignore some whitespace changes do not apply
Context: I'm doing a merge, and fixed the conflicts manually. Now I'm trying to stage changes hunk-by-hunk and make a commit.
Issue: some hunks are not getting staged.
Here's the output from magit-...
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Create patch for one file with Magit
With command line git you can use git format-patch [commit_hash] [file] to generate a patch for a single file. Is there a way to generate a patch in magit for only a single file? I tried marking the ...
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Exclude magit autosaves from git log --all?
I like the idea of (magit-wip-after-save-mode) but it makes git log --all (or la in Magit) very cluttered. Is there a simple way to exclude autosaves from all the autosave "branches"?
On the command-...
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emacs prompting for github password
I've recently switched from spacemacs to radian and have suddenly run into magit prompting for my github password whenever I view the status of a repository (the repository is configured to use SSH). ...
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Can I move lines when committing parts of a hunk in magit?
I prefer to have small and focused commits but don't always code that way. I've got a code section to the effect of
if abc:
def
etc
I edited def and etc, and the hunk in magit shows both as ...
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Show a list of names for all git projects
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1, Helm, Magit
I have many git projects in different folders.
Is it possible to show list of names for all git projects in one buffer?
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How do I visit a file on a different branch?
I'm aware of C-x v ~ which allows you to see a different revision of the current file, but I would like to visit the file on another branch.
Is this possible with magit, VC or git-timemachine?
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Emacs opens gitbash in new system window
I've try to follow this question and sulution Git Bash in emacs on Windows I have this function:
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(defun git-bash ()
(interactive)
(let ((explicit-shell-file-name "C:/...
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Git commit line length constraints
I'm quite new to emacs and a lot of the documentation I'm finding online is going over my head a bit at the moment.
I've been using emacs as my git editor for a while now by mostly eye-balling ...
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git-commit-mode with flyspell very slow
I use emacsclient as my git commit editor.
This is what I have in my init file:
(require 'git-commit)
(add-hook 'git-commit-mode-hook 'turn-on-flyspell)
I just made a huge commit (update of a third-...
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Edit commit messages in markdown mode
I configured git so that it uses emacsclient when editing commit messages. The only problem is that these messages are edited in fundamental-mode. Which hook should I use to have these commit messages ...
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Using auth-source with magit and bitbucket
The code base I'm working on has recently moved from ssh key controlled git to https bitbucket.
I use Magit to handle my version control in Emacs.
In the old ssh world I was never challenged for my ...
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Magit - How do I sync my feature branch with the latest master without checking out master?
Here's what I am trying to do::
I have one project in one git repository. I've made some changes in master and created a spinoff branch (b s) called my-feature. Now I've finished my feature and would ...
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git rebase -x (“exec”) with Magit?
Is it possible to use the "exec" mechanism when rebasing with magit?
From the git rebase man page:
-x <cmd>, --exec <cmd>
Append "exec <cmd>" after each line creating a ...
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How can I determine if a `git` branch is a remote-tracking branch using Magit?
Is there a function magit-magic such that
(magit-magic "master") => t
(magit-magic "origin/master") => nil
assuming origin/master is a fetched, but possibly unpulled branch on remote origin? (...
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Rewriting all file when save some changes
I work on Rails project in my Emacs25.
When I change one specific file and save changes I got all file changed (from git diff).
But when I try to old and new versions of this file in Meld - I get ...
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How can I tell magit to ignore specific modified files?
I am working on a project where webpack's bundle.js is part of the repository. This file is gigantic and has many diffs and slows magit down. Is there a way I can tell magit to ignore this file when ...
