Questions tagged [magit]
is an Emacs extension for the Git version control system.
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How to force a git checkout revision in Magit if there are unstaged changes?
On the terminal, in a repository with unstaged changes, I can do:
~/projects/introduction-to-clojure$ git checkout -f 3.7
Branch '3.7' set up to track remote branch '3.7' from 'origin'.
Switched to a ...
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Which option should I choose when executing "i' (Ignore) on Magit? Should Gitignore be shared in private, at the top level or in subdirectory?
I keep my emacs init file under version control. See the GitHub.
I have the things installed from ELPA also unver version control. Which is annoying. After executing Magit status, I have:
Head: ...
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How to disable magit-revision buffer from following the cursor in blame buffers?
Open a file in a git repo that is modified by two commits. Run magit-blame.
*author1 date1 commit1*
line1
*author2 date2 commit2*
line 2
Focus on the first line, press Enter. A magit-revision ...
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Make Magit ignore certain files already added to git and to .gitignore
This question is related to this previous question.
These two files below are under version control which causes some inconvenience in magit-status:
Unstaged changes (2)
modified .emacs.d/projectile-...
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How to properly use Magit Fixup?
I am trying to use the Fixup feature on Magit. I will list a recipe to what it is happening:
(i) - I have a project under version control.
(ii) - My first commit is:
1f61d09 * first commit: add file
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Magit ediff range in a pretty way?
I need to investigate a project, with a patch made by a former student of my university. He made a series of commits on a repo, and I need to see what additions he made.
I got the list of files ...
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In Magit, what is the difference between stashing "index", "worktree", or "both"?
Honestly, I have always picked both and it has worked out so far. But I do not know in which concrete cases it would be better to pick one over the other. It would be good to see examples.
I tried ...
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How is the history.el file written? Why did this change happen?
I have been tweaking my config file (init.el). This file is inside a .emacs.d directory which is under version control by Git. I also use Magit a lot.
After editing my config, I was going to stage, ...
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How to insert a flyspell hook on Magit via `use-package` declaration?
I am rewriting my Emacs config file to fully use use-package and organize code. Currently, I have
(use-package magit
:custom
(magit-display-buffer-function #'magit-display-buffer-same-window-...
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Can't commit in Emacs 29.0.50 , magit 20220412
I'm running emacs version 29.0.50, with the most recent magit and since yesterday I've not been able to create (or amend) a single commit.
*ERROR*: Not inside Git repository
error: There was a problem ...
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magit giterror There was a problem with the editor
When I try to commit C-c C-c with magit, I get this error:
There was a problem with the editor '/snap/emacs/1459/usr/bin/emacsclient --socket-name=/run/user/5019/emacs/server'. ... [Hit $ to see ...
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Magit No Longer Recognizes My Global Config
Overview
This is a new issue for me that started about a week ago.
I started having issues with some git commands in when using magit and vterm recently. Specifically, git couldn't read my global ...
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MAGIT: easier to read diffs
Is there a way in MAGIT to see diffs as one line instead of two with deletions and additions in one line? It would be much easier to navigate.
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How do I make Magit use the active window for operations and, on-exit, return the window to the previous buffer?
I am a recent newcomer to emacs, and I have my screen split into 4 windows in a grid arrangement. I'm having some problems using Magit, which is that it spawns (seemingly arbitrarily) in one of the 4 ...
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Is it possible to do a git clone using Magit in a directory which is not under version control?
Suppose I am in a folder called local-projects. Using the terminal, I can do:
[pedro@system:~/quicklisp/local-projects]$ pwd
/home/pedro/quicklisp/local-projects
An important information to ...
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How to customize the magit-todo display
I use Emacs to write documentation, and a lot of times my files end up with some internal markup that looks like this: [TK: Where is the event handler defined?] in-line with the text. (“TK” is writer ...
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Hide projectile-files-errors
My Issue: I'm getting a fatal error due to a missing url for a submodule path in a project I'm working on.
Desired Result: Every time I run Projectile to grep my project, I end up getting the annoying ...
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Cannot invoke transient magit-pull while minibuffer is active
I'm using magit. When I try to pull or commit, I get this message in the mini-buffer:
Cannot invoke transient magit-pull while minibuffer is active
I can assure you, I have closed every magit-related ...
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How to make `git fetch` `git rebase origin/master` work in Magit?
I have a branch that I have been working on. At the same time, master branch was evolving.
I decided to put my local branch changes on top of master new changes. Thus, after pulling changes on master, ...
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How to git reset --hard HEAD~1 in Magit?
I accidentally inserted 1 commit in my local master branch. I have not pushed this changed and I want to remove it. This was supposed to be in a new branch.
So, I created a new branch based on master ...
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Is there a "follow-mode" when moving through a magit-log (or similar buffers)?
I have some recollection that there was something like a "follow-mode" for some magit buffers (e.g., magit-log). The idea was that I could pull up a log (e.g., with C-x g l l), put point on ...
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Using magit-add-section-hook in spacemacs startup
I am attempting to use magit-add-section-hook in dotspacemacs/user-init.
(defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()
;; Magit pull submodules. Don't know why this fails.
(magit-add-section-hook 'magit-...
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MAGIT: is it possible to visualize only deleted portions of commit?
As part of my workflow with Magit, I like checking the red parts (deleted) changes of my commits visually quickly when committing in Emacs, given that in Emacs I must be careful not to chunk huge ...
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Limit magit-log-all
I'm using magit on Emacs 27.1 on a project with a lot of commits (27000). When I first start magit-log-all it shows about 80 commits which is fast, but if I increase the log for any reason then next ...
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How to make the writing of my commit messages faster in Magit?
I am using Magit. After staging some changes, when I press to commit something, Magit opens a buffer like this:
# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ...
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How can I configure magit to use `diff-so-fancy`, not `magit-delta`?
How can I use diff-so-fancy in magit rather than magit-delta?
I'd like to refine diff buffer in Emacs with magit.
I found diff-so-fancy and prefer it to delta for several reasons.
I installed diff-so-...
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Setup Magit Forge to connect Gitlab
I am using a Gitlab, say gitlab.company.org. My username on that machine is user and I am using 2FA.
I have read the Forge User and Developer Manual. It asked to read and follow the instructions of ...
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Pushing a gitlab release
Is there a way to push via Magit, so that the push will automatically produce a release in GitLab?
For example: I prepare my files, open the Magit status buffer, stage the file via s, commit the file ...
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How to control the number of characters for the SHA1 displayed in Magit's log view?
I've noticed some repositories use 7 characters, others 11 when displaying a SHA1.
It looks as if magit uses the output of git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit however I can't see how to configure ...
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Close all open Magit buffers when opening a new project
When using Magit, the multitude of buffers can become a bit confusing when switching buffers. Therefore I prefer to have only one git-repository open in Magit. My current procedure of switching to ...
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Jump to last staged hunk
Inspired by this question and workaround:
...stage the whole hunk, and then unstage the line which you don't want...
How do you jump to the last staged hunk in Magit?
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Let `magit-insert-local-branches` sort branches according to the branch.sort configuration
Is it possible to configure magit to sort branches inserted with magit-insert-local-branches into the main status page according to some criteria, for example whatever is configured as branch.sort in ...
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How can I disable projectile-mode in certain buffers? [duplicate]
I have (projectile-global-mode) enabled and I'd like to disable projectile-mode in certain buffers (e.g. the magit status buffer) so that their keybindings don't interfere. Is there a way to do that ...
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How can I disable `diffing` in magit during git commit?
When I commit using magit (git-commit-mode) shows following message Diffing changes to be committed (C-g to abort diffing) in the mini-buffer before typing the commit message.
Would it be possible to ...
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how to teach magit to pass multiple push-options at once
GitLab has a few push options for which I'd like to create switches in magit-push's transient.
Causing -n to add -oci.skip is simple enough:
(transient-append-suffix 'magit-push "-n" '("...
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How to debug error in process sentinel?
I've recently switched to doom emacs, and for the most part it's working great.
However, when I'm looking at a folder in dired-mode, if I copy a file using C the file is copied but *Messages* contains ...
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Corrupt Git configuration in magit
I updated My macOS to Monterey. After that, magit command yields "Corrupt Git configuration". I uninstall emacs and magit and install them again, but it does not resolve. How do I fix that?
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Does magit-log-mode support selecting commits?
Is there the concept of selection with magit-log mode?
Is there some way to tag and operate on multiple commits for example?
Note that I'm developing a package that could use the concept of selected ...
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Magit is slow in a repository with many merge commits
This is one of the many company's repositories, and the apparent difference between this one and many others that work more or less fine is that it has a huge number of merge commits. The way CI is ...
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How to filter by author in magit-log?
In gitk you can for example do:
gitk --author="Some Name"
Is there a way to show/hide commits by author in the log view?
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Way to filter/search authors in magit-cherry
Most of the times I have to backport my commits to the upstream for that I need to only check the cherries which were authored by me, is there a way I can narrow them by the C-sing the author name?
I ...
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Keeping track of "read" commits in magit?
When viewing commits in magit's log view, is there a way to treat commits in magit in a similar way to email?
Where I can track their "read" status? (set unread, mark as read... etc).
Is ...
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How to replace the diff output shown by magit?
Is there a way to switch out magit's diff display with a 3rd party output?
I would like to use delta which has syntax highlighting & word-level diffs.
Is there a way of integrating 3rd party ...
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How to diagnose invalid slot name in Magit Forge
I thought I had found a minor issue in Magit forge, and before reporting a bug I wished to update to the latest version. In the process I seem to have borked my installation.
The value of my package-...
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What's this `slot-missing: Invalid slot name: "#<forge-database forge-database-156f3376b4d8>", :file`
I somehow messed up my magit/forge db, and now emacs won't forgive me. Now I can't open magit's status buffer, and sometimes not even a file buffer opens.
This is all I can gather from the Messages ...
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company-mode popups and magit current region are dark while current theme is light
I've been successfully using lsp-mode and magit for a while with a light theme (leuven).
Today I was messing with something seemingly unrelated (company-mode and auto-complete settings in my ~/.emacs ...
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magit equivalent of gitk's "touching paths"
I'd like to find commits touching specified path in a magit-log buffer. Gitk has this as a filter "touching paths".
Is there a way to do this in Magit?
I usually run gitk --all or gitk ...
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How to repeat last magit search and modify an option?
Searching through the git log with magit is a breeze. When I do a complex search, I may pass five arguments. If I then realize I want to search again with one option changed, how can I get all search ...
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MAGIT: meaning of magit status: head, rebase, push (git newbie)
In my magit status I see the following:
Head: master Commit message
Rebase: origin/master Commit message
Push: origin/master Commit message
I may have done something (pressed some keys) ...
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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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