Questions tagged [magit]
is an Emacs extension for the Git version control system.
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Add custom entry to magit-dispatch
One of the commands I find myself running very often is git grep. I would really like it to be accessible through the same magit menu as other commands. However, from my understanding of magit.el, it ...
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Emacs magit does not seem to push (No changes on github web. Tried both https and ssh)
In a local repo, I staged all my changes and added a commit message. Then, I pushed my commits using magit-push and pushed to my branch upstream origin/master. Right after I do that, the mini-buffer ...
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How can I assign labels/milestones when creating an issue/MR in Magit Forge?
Is there a way to assign labels and/or milestones when creating an issue or merge request in Magit Forge?
I currently have to create the topic, and then edit it twice (once for labels, then for ...
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Load right version of Git while connecting to remote
I am currently working on a remote using Lmod for handling modules. I want to use Magit with the repositories on this remote, but the default system version of Git is 1.x.
However, Git 2.18 is ...
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In Magit, the command `magit-status` opens the buffer with the status buffer. Is there some similar command to do the same but with the Slime's REPL?
I am using Emacs powered with Slime to write code on Common Lisp (SBCL). In addition, I am also using magit.
Magit has a handy command called magit-status (C-x g). I use it a lot and I tend to have 2 ...
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provide optional parameter for magit
I am tracking my dotfiles by using this approach. This is very useful method to track files which are in different locations.
Short summary of the blog.
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/....
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How to see only the local branches created by me on Magit?
When I am working on the Command Line Interface, I can do:
$ git branch
Then, I can see all the local branches that I have created. On Magit, If I do b l (check out local branch), there is a prompt ...
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Using with-editor and custom key bindings
I am trying to use the with-editor package with the kubectl edit command in the kubernetes-el package. I proposed a patch for the same.
I am trying to understand how to create custom key bindings like ...
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Directory navigation in magit
I have a great experience working with a flat repository structure in magit. I find it more cumbersome to navigate in and out of directory structures when I want to some but not all of the files in a ...
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Add remote from magit for new repo
When creating a repo on a git server and wanting to push your existing local repo for the first time, how do I set the remote?
M a seems to not like me inputting the url, or a name like "origin&...
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Why this magit process happens after pushing some changes to a remote repository? How to avoid it?
After pushing some changes to a remote repository using magit, Emacs shows this process running:
git-credenti... 72390 run *git-creden... /dev/pts/1 git credential-cache--daemon /home/pedro/....
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How to use `--no-edit` flag in a `git commit --amend` process inside magit?
If I am using the terminal, after staging some changes, I can do:
git commit --amend --no-edit
This will insert the staged changes on the previous commit. The editor to edit the message was not open ...
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Magit becomes very slow in spacemacs
I am a on and off spacemacs user for a long time but I have recently started working on some bigger projects and so I started investing some more time into improving my workflow and in particular I ...
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Ignore file encoding in diff
My magit diff is full of "differences" where there is no visually discernible change.
I've adjusted every Magit Diff Option. Configuring magit to ignore line endings, tabs, whitespace, and ...
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How to run clean-up code once magit has completed a re-base operation?
My emacs customisation has grown some considerable hairballs while I've been writing helpers to update commits. The idea being that when I re-base I can tag all the commits that need updating and work ...
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Howto detect whether ssh server is online from elisp
When using magit-gerrit for git gerrit reviews and
magit-gerrit-ssh-creds is set then magit-gerrit
assumes that there is a gerrit server and tries to connect to it
using ssh subprocess.
The problem is ...
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Git track flag in Dired
How can I show an additional column in Dired, where I can see if the file is tracked or not by git in the current branch?
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Magit-transient: dynamic choices?
I am trying to make the choices in my transients dynamic but I cannot figure out how. Right now, the choices are only evaluated when loaded.
Here's a static example:
(define-infix-argument choice-rt ()...
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Why I am unable to squash these commits on magit?
I am trying to squash some commits using magit. I tried two different approaches choosing different commit ids to pick and squash. Despite the fact that none of them worked out, the error messages ...
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Retrieve file from an earlier commit
I am using Doom Emacs 2.0.9 on Emacs 27.2.
I use magit to manage a local git repository.
In an earlier commit, there was a file. In the latest commit as well as the current working tree, the file no ...
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Undo stage hunk in magit
If I accidentally staged a hunk that I wanted a better look at, how do I undo that action (the most recent action). C-/ does not work.
Sure I can U to unstage all, but say all else staged is valid.
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How to install transient package?
...Magit depends on the dash, transient and with-editor libraries which are available from Melpa and Melpa-Stable. Install them using M-x package-install RET RET. Of course you may also install them ...
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Log with --first-parent option
How can I tell magit to use the --first-parent option?
I only want to see commits onto this branch, none from merged branches.
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How do I jump to the previous/next modification (relative to the git HEAD) in the current file?
How do I jump to the previous/next modification (relative to the git HEAD) in the current file?
Ideally, I like sth like swiper that lets me choose to easily jump between modifications.
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Automating git rebase and solve conflict
I have a script can solve some conflict on certain file.
How can I automate the work flow to do the following?
Run git rebase
If has conflict, run script try to solve it.
Then run git rebase --...
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Use all-the-icons in magit-repolist-column-flag-alist
I am trying to get magit-repolist-column-flag-alist to use icons from all-the-icons.el but with no success. This is the code I tried.
(setq magit-repolist-column-flag-alist
'((magit-untracked-files ....
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Duplicate headllines in org mode in CentOS
CentOS 7
Emacs 27.1
Magit
Here my folder with org mode files:
I open current.to.do.org and it success open.
As you can see the first headline is ANDROID and last headline is TESTING.
Nice.
Now I ...
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How to copy commit hash from Magit status buffer?
After I open a Magit status buffer and make a commit, I commonly also want to copy that commit's hash (the shortened version) to my clipboard to post somewhere else.
I can't work out how this should ...
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magit status buffer disappears
Magit status used to create a buffer with the buffer name magit: repo name. I recently upgraded Spacemacs and the Magit status buffer started to disappear whenever its window was not visible, and it ...
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Remove stale buffers after switching to a different branch
This is the scenario:
Switch to a new git branch
Open some "new files" in that branch
Switch back to an older branch that doesn't have these "new files"
I want these opened ...
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How to show full diff when using `Limit to files` in log?
When showing the log, there is an option to limit the log to commits touching a set of files. The log itself is fine, but when I open any commit on the log, the diff of that commit is limited to the ...
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Complete in-progress merge with the --no-verify option
Often when I'm merge the upstream branch into my branch I'll need to fix up some merge conflicts. At that point I have an in-progress merge. When I fix the conflict and hit m to complete the merge ...
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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 ...
