Questions tagged [magit]
is an Emacs extension for the Git version control system.
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Can magit truncate to 50/72 lines?
A common git style rule says that commit messages should be at most 50 characters long and commit descriptions at most 72.
Can magit truncate the lines in the COMMIT_EDITMSG buffer in accordance with ...
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magit equivalent to `git push -u origin newLocalBranch`
I often create new branches locally (e.g., newLocalBranch), and then push them to the upstream remote origin, thus creating a new remote branch, using git push -u origin newLocalBranch. Is there a ...
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Magit status section with recent checkouts / visited branches?
In the same fashion magit can offer the list of recent commits in a section of status buffer. I'd like to have a list of recent checkout/visited branches to be able to quickly switch to it (M-xbb).
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How to take line from recent commit with Magit
Use Magit to view the log with show diffs (-p).
Inspect 4 commit old commit.
Navigate to a few lines I've since deleted, but want back my project.
I can mark the lines but cannot copy them, which ...
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Smerge: clearer refine mode?
I'm using doom+magit to deal with git, and I have smerge configured to change in-file conflicts. When I enable the smerge refine mode to highligh changes on a per-word basis, I find that refines works ...
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Smerge: auto-resolve LaTeX-like git conflicts
I'm using doom emacs + magit, and it enables smerge for me to display nicely my conflicts. I just saw that smerge has a function smerge-resolve to automatically resolve conflicts. I'd like to use it ...
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finding git conflict in the same buffer if cursor is at end of the buffer
I am using next-conflict to detect is there any git conflict, using following answer:
Jump to next merge conflict in project using Magit and Smerge. I experience that if I am at the end of the file/...
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What's the difference between magit-branch-checkout and magit-branch-and-checkout?
If I'm on the commandline, and I'm in the master branch, and I want to create a new branch and immediately start working on it, I'd just do git checkout -b foo.
So I'm looking for the magit equivalent ...
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Getting the TAB key to work the same in Doom as in Spacemacs
When using the TAB key in a magit status/overview buffer, it says: Buffer is read-only.
If I manually disable read-only mode, the pressing TAB indents the text instead of expanding or contracting ...
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MAGIT: “precomposed unicode is not supported”
I am trying to commit in my Emacs folde, and I get this message below:
"precomposed unicode is not supported".
I have run on my Terminal "git config core.precomposeunicode false" ...
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How to checkout a specific commit using Magit?
When using M-x magit-checkout, I can only select a branch.
Is it possible to visit a commit (the stage at the commit) using Magit?
Thanks!
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How to use Magit to git log / git grep to find expressions across all previous commits
I am using Magit and was wondering how to revert to a specific commit that contained a specific expression. First I need to find the expression across all commits content. How to do this? In command ...
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APIs to create a custom issue list on Magit Forge?
Using Magit Forge, I'd like to organize a list of open issues by assignee. Ideally I'd like to display them in groups by assignee, but I'd settle for a single list if the assignee were added to the ...
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Bindings just for text buffers created by magit?
I'm trying to create a different keybinding to abort a commit in magit. Right now, when you're editing a commit message C-c C-k is bound to with-editor-cancel, which does the trick. But I'm an evil ...
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How to git stage a just-tangled file in `org-babel-post-tangle-hook`
I want to create a org-babel-post-tangle-hook that does a git stage buffer-file-name. There is a boring technical issue I have, which is that I don't know how to call magit-stage-file from elisp so ...
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Local magit revives all stale tramp connections
I'm using long-living emacs sessions using emacs in daemon mode, and I use tramp quite extensively. I usually have several buffers in the background which use tramp, but since my system has been ...
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How to remove all labels from a topic in forge
How can I remove all labels from an issue or PR in forge? When I trigger the edit-label minibuffer and clear its contents, then hit enter, the labels are not removed.
I can see that forge is first ...
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Closing magit's visit-file/blob window doesn't return focus back to magit
If Magit's log is open and you hit RET on any of the commits, it opens a visit file/blob window where you can see the diff with some details. There's a few ways to do it, but I believe in Doom Emacs ...
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How to disable magit on remote files with tramp?
I'm working with Emacs on windows, I usually work locally, but I want to disable magit when I'm working on a remote file.
I'm trying to add a hook that disables magit when it detects that the file is ...
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How to reset/undo changes in folder using Magit
I'm looking for a way to undo changes in selected directory, analogue of git checkout [folder-path] in Magit.
I found that I can reset changes of specific file to selected branch by typing X f in ...
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Pull from git before applying org-capture?
I'm using org-capture to take project-specific notes by having a notes file in each of several git repositories. Looking forward, however, I can see danger here: if I'm working on project (1) and I ...
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Magit: rebase and push, basic questions
I was learning magit and found this screenshot at Command to visit Github pull request of current branch with Magit:
I was wondering why we have Rebase and Push (and not just Push) at the top. What ...
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Magit connecting to github with alternate ssh key
I have two github accounts ā one personal and one for my job. In most of my repos, I use my work account and magit works fine. In a couple personal repos, I have this in .git/config:
sshCommand = ssh -...
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magit: squash commits in feature branch, but ability to unravel later if needed
Does magit offer a way to squash a bunch of commits, but preserve some sort of record
of the micro commits - should you need to step through them the next day.
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What means Unmerged into origin/master in magit?
In the magit buffer I see Unmerged into origin/master, yet I'm not noticing see any issues while merging with magit or with git on the commandline.
Searching for the the subject brought me here[0], ...
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magit on Windows over plink tramp
I'm scratching my head on this problem, but I cannot seem to use magit on a project served over plink or plinkx on Windows.
What does work:
The windows client can use magit on a project stored ...
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Why magit use rectangle on origin/master and not only on master?
I have done a branch checkout on master but magit rectangle is on origin/master and not only on master.
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Can't create new branch
I clone git project. Current branch is main.
Nice. Now I want to create new branch: my-branch
Magit Branch Read Upstream First: Value Menu read upstream first
I try this:
magit-branch-create
Create ...
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writing a magit function that specifies the repo
I would like to write helper functions in elisp for putting dotfiles under version control using YADM.
From their documentation I learned that I could call up the magit status buffer for the YADM ...
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How to use authinfo credentials with Magit to push/pull to Overleaf
Overleaf allows git for some users. I have been using emacs and magit with overleaf since some time by providing username-password at each git push or git pull.
What I want
Now I want to configure ...
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How to deal with user arguments with magit transients?
I understand the infix flags work. However, I'm not sure how best to work with argument inputs. I have read the docs as well as looked at some examples from the magit source code but it's still a ...
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Context-aware username (e.g., git username instead of login name) in time-stamp
I am a total emacs/elisp newbie and I can't figure out how to do this.
I have time-stamp-active t with a pretty standard format: time-stamp-format "Last modified %Y-%02m-%02d %02H:%02M:%02S ...
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Can Emacs be set to auto-stage (preferably with --intent-to-add) new files?
I often add a new file to a repo, make some other changes, then stage all, and commit all, forgetting that the new file is not yet tracked, so is not included in the stage all step. At least one ...
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Rebasing with -X option
This is my scenario:
My branch is rebased against some other branch
that other branch changed and I want to get mine back to sync
I do a rebase and magit makes me go through all commits and merge
In ...
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Deleting remote branches using Magit
I want to delete a remote branch. How can I do git push origin --delete my-branch in magit, to delete a remote branch?
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Initializing forge-alist
I am trying to initialize Magit Forge's forge-alist programatically. Therefore I put together my first couple of emacs-lisp code. It looks like the following:
(let ((gitlab-install (lambda (host) (...
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Magit continues despite pre-commit hook failing
I have a pre-commit hook in git that returns nonzero on some "fatal" QA checks.
When using git commit on the command line, git bails out. However, when trying the very same commit in Magit, ...
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How to apply a hunk of changes in diff to current branch?
I have two branches, let's say branch a and b, I would like to apply some changes from b to a.
Note that I use magit-diff to show the differences between the two branches. Then I would like to apply ...
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How to keep magit from prompting me for my GitHub username
I'd like to configure magit so that it does not prompt me for my GitHub username when it needs to interact with GitHub in some way (like, say, when doing a push).
My GitHub username is already in the ...
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Magit: cannot commit error, unsure why
I am getting the error below and I have no clue what could be causing this. Any help is greatly appreciated:
1 git --no-pager --literal-pathspecs -c core.preloadindex\=true -c log.showSignature\=...
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Force magit to ask for confirmation before deleting a branch
I would like to have magit ask for confirmation when I've told it to delete a particular branch.
Currently it seems that magit considers the selection of a branch to delete to be the confirmation, as ...
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Magit git commit isn't working on spacemacs
After installing Magit in spacemacs. I used Helm to create a git repository. I added some files to stage then tried to commit. Let me know if I'm doing something wrong or it's just an issue.
I get:
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How to create an annotated tag with an empty message in Magit?
Objective
Create an annotated tag with an empty message, as would be created with the following command.
$ git tag --annotate epic-tag --message=""
Attempts
Create it with M-x magit-tag<...
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magit, understand magit-blame
When I enter magit-blame it shows the following lines.
jihae 2020-04-07 14:51 ė¶ķģķ ķģ¼ ģģ , yarn ė¹ ģ§ ė¶ė¶ ģ¶ź°, public path
Eugene Kim 2020-06-04 17:50 config
process.env.__DEV__ = ...
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Is there a way to see a pull-request review status in magit?
I see I can view the github pull requests assigned to me with forge-list-requested-reviews. Is there a way to see the status of each review? For example I've approved some of the pull requests that ...
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How to set smerge-command-prefix to “\C-cv”
I find the default prefix for smerge-mode C-c^ and I have following setup:
(setq smerge-command-prefix "\C-cv")
(setq smerge-command-prefix "\C-c\C-v")
Also C-c ^ runs the command ...
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Git commit multiple files
When I go to commit my changes VC seems only allows me to commit one file at a time via C-x v v. Is there a way for VC to commit more than 1 file at a time?
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How can I create a new label using Magit forge?
Using Magit Forge, I'd like to create a new label for a new issue. I can edit the Labels field using command forge-edit-topic-labels, but that command accepts only labels that already exist. How can ...
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Syntax highlighting for comments in Magit commit buffers with custom core.commentChar
I frequently source the body of my GitHub PRs from my commits, and thus is makes sense to consider my commits to be made in Markdown (it is nice to have a markup language for commits anyway). Thus I ...
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Unable to push into Github using Magit
When I try to push into my remote repository, the mini buffer says Running git push -v origin master:refs/heads/master but nothing else happens.
Following the manual, I have staged, committed, and ...
