Questions tagged [magit]
is an Emacs extension for the Git version control system.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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magit, understand magit-blame
When I enter magit-blame it shows the following lines.
jihae 2020-04-07 14:51 불필요한 파일 삭제, yarn 빠진 부분 추가, public path
Eugene Kim 2020-06-04 17:50 config
process.env.__DEV__ = ...
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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 -...
