Questions tagged [magit]
is an Emacs extension for the Git version control system.
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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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How to integrate Emacs + Lab + Magit
I'd like to use lab hub wrapper for handling mr/issues of my own custom gitlab server. When I open a pull-request using hub (github) it's works fine the git-commit-mode from magit, syntax highlight ...
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Run a function before/after magit runs git
I'd like to run a function before magit runs git, and another one after magit runs git. I see magit-pre-start-git-hook but I don't see any post-finish-git hook. How can I run commands before and after ...
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Use magit to display the difference between two branches
Is there a way to bring up a big list of the differences between specific commits across two branches?
I tried the method described in this answer but it came back empty, I assume because the ...
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Mode-line not updated after checking out new branch using Magit
I create and checkout a new local branch via magit. Pressing
M-x magit-status then
b c for branch create
and in the magit buffer I see the new name of the branch that I am apparently on. However ...
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magit options when dealing with a failed git-am
I'm not sure if I'm missing something or if this is a missing feature but occasionally when I attempt to apply a patch from my mail box git completely fails to apply it.
This isn't a case of ...
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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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How to create a new repository on Github from Magit
I am unable to add a remote repo to github if it does not already exist on github.
E.g.
magit-init
Add some files, stage and commit.
Then magit-remote-add --> Remote name:github --> Remote url: ...
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Magit throws error when I press “h” or “c” [on hold]
I have installed Emacs on a fresh install of Elementary OS, and I have just installed Magit. When I run magit-status in a repository, and press either the c or h key, magit throws an error. The error ...
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Limit magit to showing status of 1 directory
I'm working on a large repo with many folders, and showing the status is slow (just plain git takes a long time).
I am really only interested in one directory, how can I constrain magit to only seek ...
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Magit unignore file
When in magit, I pressed i on a file and asked if I would like to ignore the file locally or globally. I chose locally.
I assumed that it would write a line in my .gitignore file but unfortunately ...
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Pushing/Fetching all branches at once in magit
Context:
I have a relatively small project, in which I use branches to work on new features, so that when I'm finished, then I manually merge branches as I need.
I usually keep the same exact copy of ...
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How to modify fringes only for magit mode?
I have tried:
(defun my-change-fringes ()
(set-window-fringes (selected-window) 20 0))
(add-hook 'magit-mode-hook 'my-change-fringes))
The problem seems to be that when I open a magit buffer for ...
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Magit: add a full directory with magit-status
How can I add a full new directory with magit-status? When trying to stage a new directory from the magit-status buffer, pressing s, I can only add individual files within the directory, but not the ...
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How can I diagnose which `git` magit is running?
I'm trying to use Magit with TRAMP. The remote host has multiple git versions, necessitating
(add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path "/usr/sup/bin")
in my .emacs. However, when I run magit-status in a ...
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Magit: Getting to the current/editable version of a file from a commit/diff view
Very similar to this question, particularly the second part to this answer:
From the diff view of a specific commit, is there a way to jump to the current+editable version of a modified file? If I ...
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Can magit commit with all (-a / --all) instead of “.” by default?
When using magit-commit-create, internally it runs something like...
git commit . instead of...
git commit -a
Is there a way to make magit use -a / --all by default instead?
Note: this is an ...
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Show blame information for a line from the *magit* buffer
There's a workflow I tend to do fairly often and I wonder if Magit could help me. I've made a bunch of git commits on a branch, I haven't pushed them yet, and I notice a small mistake in my unpushed ...
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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 turn off Magit default switch (--reset-author in Commit)
I did something causing the -R (--reset-author) switch in the Commit menu to always be on by default. How can I reset this?
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magit-run-git-with-editor: Invalid function: with-editor*
today, using magit, I've started getting the following error message when I hit c to commit :
Terminal is dumb, but EDITOR unset
In the *Messages* buffer, I also get:
magit-run-git-with-editor: ...
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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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Set magit timestamp format with function
I would like to have my git timestamps in UTC. Currently attempting to commit using magit gives
Wrong type argument: sequencep, my/magit-timestamp-utc
Here's the code:
(defun timestamp-now()
(...
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How rollback settings without restart Emacs?
windows 10, emacs 26.1
In my init.el
(with-eval-after-load 'magit-status
(define-key magit-status-mode-map (kbd "C-<tab>") nil))
This disable C-<tab> after magit-status was load.
And ...
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Magit: How disable C-<tab>?
windows 10, emacs 26.1,
I use package magit to work with git.
Nice.
When I press C-<tab> is collapse/expand recent commits:
Nice. But if I press <tab> magit do same thing as when I ...
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How to perform an automatic commit with predefined message using Magit?
I have a repository of org files which I mostly use for note taking and tracking, and I track it using git. I want to add a shortcut that would quickly commit all current content of the repository (...
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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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Ignoring specific remotes when running `magit-log-popup` to log all branches
I would like to add an option in magit-log-popup to ignore a list of remotes when using "Log all branches" (l b). What I'm trying to do is something like this git log HEAD --branches --remotes --not -...
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Prevent any form of ESC from closing a magit buffer
I'd like to be able to prevent Magit from closing a buffer when I press ESC. I also want to prevent my evil-escape-mode sequence (kj) from closing it as well.
Running C-h k ESC gives
<escape>...
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How can I get git-gutter:next-hunk to NOT loop around at buffer bottom?
As per the title, I would like to stop processing at the end of a buffer and not loop around to the top. I find it easier to keep track of what I am doing that way. TIA.
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Can I automatically see pre-commit hook output when committing with magit?
A coworker has just set up our main repo to use overcommit. It's lovely, and keeps us from invoking long CI builds which will fail for trivial reasons by warning us about issues using pre-commit hooks....
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How can I add custom shell command in magit?
In my project, I write scripts to deploy it to server.
Here are the commands:
npm run deploy:internal
npm run deploy:staging
npm run deploy:production
I want to add custom shell commands to magit, ...
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what to do with “magit-wip-commit-worktree: Cannot read tree refs/heads/master”?
When I commit via magit I get:
magit-wip-commit-worktree: Cannot read tree refs/heads/master
while it commits ok. But the message frightens me. There seems to be nothing wrong with the repo:
$ ...
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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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Error (ssh-agency): ‘/usr/bin/ssh-add’ failed with status 1:
(I am using MAC OS High Sierra v.10.13.6) with Emacs v26.1
When attempting to push changes to a remote-repo (Github) using the package magit
I received the following error in the buffer.
Error (...
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magit-diff-visit-file key bindings
While point is inside a diff in a Magit buffer I press RET, which invokes magit-diff-visit-file.
After checking this file, I want to quit it and get back to the Magit buffer that was previously ...
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Magit status is slow on Linux insided virtual machine but fast on native MacOS
In OSX El Capitan, I am using Magit 20171026.217, Git 2.10.1 (Apple Git-78), Emacs 25.1.1, darwin.
In CentOS Release 6.6, I'm using Magit 20180903.2339, Git 2.13.1, Emacs 26.1, gnu/linux.
For the ...
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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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How to execute a function in all files in the git working tree?
How to invoke a function on all files in the git working tree, while opening the ones which have had no opened buffers beforehand?
A potential use case: Check and fix spelling in all project files ...
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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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Opening my windows 10 project with spacemacs via samba/mount will attach wrong encoding to all files
I have a project on my windows machine.
I mounted that via samba.
Then I access the project with spacemacs.
When I run magit now all project fiels have been modified.
The actual change is that every ...
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`git add -A` equivalent for magit
I'm a very limited git user and most of the time, I just want to stage commit and push my code without too much ceremony.
What's the git add -A equivalent for magit? (I want to do it programmatically)...
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Magit popup set height automatically
When the magit-commit-popup window opens, there are one or two lines that are just below the screen. Calling fit-window-to-buffer in the popup buffer fixes the problem, but I would like to automate ...
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Error (use-package): Cannot load magit
I am not sure if that is a problem on my site or more people are experiencing this. I thought at first that I broke something in my config file, but after loading by backup .emacs.d, the error is the ...
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magit push credentials
Where does magit get push credentials from?
I have been using magit happily for quite some time.
I installed a new (OSX) machine with the same emacs (spacemacs) config I use on other machines, yet ...
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How to get magit to ignore branches associated with closed pull requests?
I'm struggling to find a good workflow for managing pull requests from magit. (I am approving pull requests, not generating them.) At the moment I am using m p to preview a pull request and m m to ...
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Move to file position from magit-diff
diff-mode allows to move (by C-c C-c) or to apply hunk and to move (by C-c C-a) to position of original source file where hunk is placed.
How can I do that in Magit Rev mode? On RET it opens buffer ...
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How to make “canned commits” in magit?
At work we have several different commit messages that are used for every feature branch:
branchname initial
branchname ready for review
branchname passed review
branchname done
plus a few more that ...
