Questions tagged [magit]
is an Emacs extension for the Git version control system.
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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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magit refresh is too slow
We're talking tens of seconds. In comparison, git status in the same repo is nearly instantaneous.
Here is my profiling result on refresh:
- command-execute ...
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Magit set upstream to origin/master automatically
Is there a way to set the upstream of a branch automatically in magit?
I know I can select it interactively but for feature branches I set it to master 99% of the times so I was wondering if it can ...
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Is there a way to add git alias of customized log to magit?
In ~./gitconfig, I have
[alias]
lg1 = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)%...
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How to show diffs of merge commits in magit?
When viewing a merge commit it only shows the number of lines changed but no diff.
I know that it is possible with git show --first-parent. Is there a way to add an argument to magit-show-commit?
I'...
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magit-status open selected buffer change hunk in other window rather then in the same window
I used to have this functionality using code below:
(setq magit-display-file-buffer-function
(lambda (buffer)
(setq current-prefix-arg t)
(magit-display-file-buffer-traditional ...
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How can I turn off magit's warning that a commit message has a second line that is non empty?
Every time I have a second line in a commit message, magit prompts/warns me when commiting...
Is there a way I can turn this off warning?
I've found the following in the docs https://magit.vc/manual/...
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How to let Magit highlight changes
I've been using magit for a couple of weeks now and I really really like it. There is, however, one thing I still can't get to work, which is the highlighting of changes. In the pictures used in the ...
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Browse line range of file in GitHub with Magit
Is it possible to select a range of code and open it in GitHub using Magit? I use the browse-at-remote package for this, but I wonder if this could be done from Magit. I'd like to navigate both from ...
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Unstaged changes not appearing in magit, plus other oddities
I'm a Magit rookie and finding it is not behaving as expected. I have multiple unstaged changes in a repository (see "Git Status" below). However, Magit is not showing them (see "Magit" below) when I ...
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Magit log: move cursor to the HEAD
While in the log buffer, is there a way to move the cursor directly to the HEAD commit?
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Updating magit today gives me invalid face attribute
Updating magit this morning I now can't start things up, getting:
face-attribute: Invalid face attribute name: :extend
Anyone know what could cause and (hopefully!) fix this?
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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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Magit doesn't prompt for SSH key after OS upgrade?
Q: magit no longer prompts me for my ssh key when pushing/pulling; how do I fix it?
After an OS upgrade (Lubuntu 19.04 to 19.10), I can no longer push
to origin from magit. Pushing to origin results ...
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Extra carriage-return on magit path
I'm having a little trouble with magit and the default-directory variable.
When calling M-x magit-status, an exception is thrown - Setting current directory: No such file or directory, /path/to/git/...
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Prevent magit-status from closing hunk preview window when magit-status buffer close
I configured magit-status to open selected buffer change hunk in other window rather then in the same window with:
(setq magit-display-file-buffer-function
(lambda (buffer)
(setq ...
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How to show commit authors in Magit section “Recent commits”?
The "Recent commits" section in the status view shows short commit checksums plus the subject of the commit. How can I also show the author of each commit?
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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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Add a group of options in a Magit transient
I would like to add a group of options to a transient, but I cannot figure out the POS parameter I should use.
(transient-append-suffix 'magit-push "-n" ;; after the last option of the first group
[...
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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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Magit set upstream origin
I'm having trouble understanding how Magit handles pushing local branches to remote
I create and checkout a new branch with b c.
I make some arbitrary change, and save returning to magit with C-x g
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Magit status Recent commits foreground color
I have a terminal with a dark background color. Magit shows recent commits and uses a dark color for the commit hashes so I can't see them. I tried customizing frame-background-mode to be dark but the ...
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Magit-todos warning: File is too long, consider excluding it from scans
Whenever I do something in Magit buffer I get this warning:
Warning (magit-todos): File has lines too long for Emacs to search. Consider excluding it from scans: path/to/file
In particular it ...
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Problem Committing with Magit
I'm a relatively new convert to emacs and a very new convert to Mac. After installing Emacs using the ESS installer (Version 18.10.2).
When I attempt to state a file for commit I receive the ...
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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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magit commit does not permit adding a gpg signature
I am failing to run gpg to sign commits, after doing so successfully before an upgrade to Mojave and an upgrade to Emacs. (I am not sure when I lost the ability to sign files in the past year.)
When ...
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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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magit-checkout does not update current buffer
When I checkout an existing remote branch, the current buffer remains on the old branch.
However if I open a new file, that new file is on the checked-out branch.
My current workflow is this:
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magit: how do I turn off the -S (--gpg-sign) argument when committing? [closed]
I forgot my GPG key at home and want to check in the code until I am home and can amend/resign the commits. Unfortunately I can't seem to figure out how to disable the --gpg-sign= argument in the ...
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View file diffs in merge commits
When I open the commit view for a regular commit in magit, I can see the diff for each file. When I open a merge commit, I can only see a summary of the number of lines that were changed. Is there a ...
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Maximum total length for commit message with Magit
I know that it's possible to limit the length of the commit message's first line with git-commit-summary-max-length, but is there a way to limit the total number of characters in a commit message?
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Use magit to find out who wrote the line at point and when
Someone showed me how to do this with "ruby mine" but I don't use ruby mine so hoping emacs / magit can do this.
A file in a git repository is opened up in emacs. Point is at line 23, and you want to ...
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Can magit put my commit somewhere up the tree?
I have a rough part of my workflow, wondering if magit is the solution.
So when I'm working on a task, I spin off a branch like most people.
I end up putting 5 or 6 commits in a branch that's for my ...
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How to set magit recent commit always expand when i open magit status?
When I open a Magit status buffer, then the recent commit section is closed, I need to use TAB to expand it. How can I configure it to always be expanded.
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Magit popup doesn't open in status buffer
Every time I accidentally update Magit to a new version, I come to regret it. :( Today, I discovered that the popup window doesn't work well anymore: instead of opening in the same buffer as the ...
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Setting mode-line font size and Magit diff colours
I'd like to adjust the background colour of the part of the diffs displayed by Magit. In particular, the background colour of the text 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the image. I'd like to increase the contrast ...
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Pushed commit doesn't appear on Github
I tried updating a repository about 30 minutes ago with only 3 lines being different and it has yet to show up as a commit on Github. Is it typically this slow? It shows that it went through and ...
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Use ssh-agent's SSH_AUTH_SOCK value, not macOS' one [duplicate]
When I run (getenv "SSH_AUTH_SOCK"), I get "/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.K9OEFgxDgw/Listeners".
I want to set it to the value that is returned by echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK on the command line which is ...
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magit ediff conflicts wordwise
During a magit-rebase I'm running into conflicts on single long lines, where I'd like to take some parts of the line from the A and some from the B buffer.
After hitting * -refine current region ...
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CUA doesn't work in magit status buffer
The title is basically everything what I know. CUA keys just don't work in magit status buffer.
In older versions, it worked. Sometimes. Now it consistently just doesn't work.
Emacs 26.2.
Newest ...
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How can you configure magit for duet-commit?
The following code used to work with earlier versions of emacs, adding a ‘d’ option to magit's commit popup for ‘git duet’.
(require 'dash)
(defvar magit-duet--default-commit-popup-actions nil
"...
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How to disable `git-rebase-mode` after magit is installed?
I'd rather use regular text editing functions when rebasing instead of learning magit's bindings.
Is there a way to use magit but disable git-rebase-mode?
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How to change window splitting behavior in Magit?
emacs: 26.2
spacemacs: develop (19c429e)
magit: 20190609.1424
Some time ago (e.g. 20190222.1746), magit's window management used to be different from how it currently is. For example, magit-status ...
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How to diff one file against another branch with Magit
I want to see the differences of a file in another branch. With git I can simply do: git diff otherbranch: path-to-file.
In magit this seems trickier as the file may not be dirty and not showing up ...
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Magit is not able to render the font [duplicate]
I am trying to use Magit but whenever I tried running it, somehow fonts are not rendered properly.
I am using MacOS and below is the init.el config. I am using powerline font (Meslo)
(use-package ...
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What's this `slot-missing: Invalid slot name: “#<transient-prefix transient-prefix>”, :incompatible`
After updating to magit 20190517.1750 from ELPA, I've got this warning
slot-missing: Invalid slot name: "#<transient-prefix transient-prefix>", :incompatible
which breaks a lot of magit ...
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How do I select 'flag' options for magit through helm?
I'm using spacemacs with helm and magit. There are some options, for example, the ability to sort log entries in reverse order, that have a flag by them.
I don't know how to select any of these ...
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How to reproduce `git push -u` behavior, that is, auto-set local branch as the new remote or push branch?
No matter how I fiddle with magit options, I cannot reproduce the following behavior:
I checkout origin/master.
I create a new feature-branch on top of it; its name is unique.
I make changes, add ...
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How to close the current frame automatically after aborting the commit
For editing messages, Magit opens a frame. It disappears if I finish the editing session, but it stays if I choose to cancel the session. In the latter case, I have to manually close the frame. So I ...
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How to prevent magit with ivy from selecting an author email address? [duplicate]
I have a git repository containing commits with 3 of my email addresses. When I try to view the log and filter by author (-A) and then enter a few letters of my last name, I see a list of the 3 email ...
