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File is not under version control (Subversion/svn)
I have a Subversion checkout which works fine (I can do svn st, svn diff etc.) However, Emacs doesn't recognise that the files are in Subversion. E.g. if I do M-x vc-diff I get File is not under ...
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Is there a way to see a log of the backend commands issued by VC commands?
I'd like to see the what commands are issued by the child process used by the various VC commands. Is there a way to log them or collect them without modifying the VC code?
For example, I'd like to ...
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Despite commands working in Emacs shell or "M-!, still getting permission denied
I have Emacs 27.1 on Windows 10 using MSYS2 bash. I can successfully run bash from M-x shell:
# echo $0
/usr/bin/bash
Also, I can successfully run commands from `M-!". But some commands still ...
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Can Emacs be set to auto-stage (preferably with --intent-to-add) new files?
I often add a new file to a repo, make some other changes, then stage all, and commit all, forgetting that the new file is not yet tracked, so is not included in the stage all step. At least one ...
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How to query the name of the current branch in an elisp function?
I'd like to know the current branch I'm in (in elisp), is there a generic function that returns the name of the current branch?
From looking into vc-mode mode-line logic it seems this relies on ...
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vc-annotate: strip the last character of git commit id
When editing a file managed by Git, vc-annotate shows the output of git blame. As Git usually does, revisions are identified by a short commit id.
The short commit id is abbreviated to be one ...
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Customize vc-mode appearance in mode-line
I use vc-mode to show information about the current VC state in my mode line, like this:
(setq mode-line-format '(… (vc-mode vc-mode) …))
However, I find the default format of vc-mode pretty verbose....
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How to sign git commit using VC?
I am just wondering how can VC can be used to sign commit using gpg, Currently I am using vc without sign mean I am using vc-next-action to perform git commit
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Cannot figure out why vc-git.elc is always loaded on startup
This is more a curiosity, than a necessity.
I'm playing around with startup times, and to have something to compare with, I wanted to see how fast emacs could start up pure.
Running emacs -Q, emacs-...
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Version control: registered or unregistered?
I'm a bit confused when writing code using the VC interface. After executing the following commands in the shell (committing a dummy file ~/test/file in a fresh git repo ~/test):
cd
mkdir test
cd ...
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How to resolve TRAMP spamming empty messages
Connecting to a remote machine with tramp that may have VC (subversion) related
files, I tend to see a large number of repeated messages in the *Messages*
buffer. For example:
Type "q" in help ...
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How do I do a `git add` with vc-git?
I want to stage a file or a hunk using vc-git (the vc system that comes with Emacs). How do I do this?
(To clarify, I made modifications on a file that is already (registered) in git. I would like to ...
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Git status on modeline to indicate if behind remote?
Can I get Emacs to indicate on the mode-line whether a push is needed, i.e. whether the repo is out of sync with origin?
I've already got it telling me if a commit is needed using vc-status, but that ...
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VC status behavior in ibuffer-vc
I use ibuffer-vc, a replacement for list-buffer that displays the VC status of the listed files. I noted that the VC status stays as "edited" even after I push my changes. That is, the VC status does ...
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vc-git doesn't recognize that file is under version control
I initialized a Git repository outside emacs, added and committed the files.
Now if I a file in emacs that is under version control by Git and run C-x v = emacs tells me This file is not under ...
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Can't enable a file in Version Control RCS in Emacs 26
Trying here to set a file with VC RCS, but I'm having some trouble finding the .el file and enable it.
Already managed to download rcs.el from this link, but it isn't being recognized in Emacs.
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How can I see diff for specific changeset?
I want an analog of git show $REV / hg diff -c $REV / svn diff -c $REV in Emacs when I know $REV.
Currently I open full history via C-x v L and search for specific revision and then type d or l ((
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Disable VC for SVN in exclusive-locking mode
I have Subversion exclusive-locking enabled to increase SVN performance. If I commit a file the svn command line client opens Emacs so I can enter a commit message. But Emacs VC tries to determine the ...
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Make VC log history to follow file renames
I like to see full file history regardless file renames (and with Java convention class name == file name several refactoring makes following history difficult).
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Is there a more async or lazy vc-mode?
Question
Does a "lazy" or "asynchronous" vc mode exist?
Background
Emacs vc mode is designed on the assumption that the version control backend is fast. Much of the core vc features wants the ...
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Is there a way to revert only certain lines from a diff hunk?
I use the builtin VC package and it's very nice that when I do a diff of changes in the current file then I can revert any hunk in the diff quickly with C-a
But sometimes I don't want to revert the ...
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How do I visit a file on a different branch?
I'm aware of C-x v ~ which allows you to see a different revision of the current file, but I would like to visit the file on another branch.
Is this possible with magit, VC or git-timemachine?
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Emacs doesn't recognize if file is under version control
I noticed I never see in the mode line in which VCS branch I'm currently in, when I open a file in Emacs.
So I tried it with an empty Emacs, created a folder in Eshell, called ~/foo
, and initialized ...
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How to prevent the creation of an RCS directory?
When I enable version control for a certain file using RCS, Emacs 27.0.50 creates an RCS subdirectory. I remember that some former versions of Emacs just created a …,v sidecar file instead. How can ...
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Possible to make vc-dir aware of (hg) subrepo changes?
vc-dir works really well for most of my needs, as I use both hg and svn repositories. But most of the hg repos I work with have subrepositories. I typically use vc-dir buffers for each of the subrepos ...
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Resolve git merge conflict by applying diff hunk to different file
I have refactored a file by splitting into two files in one git branch, and someone else has made a different change to the original file on another git branch. This has produced a merge conflict in ...
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On occasion, mode-line git information gets stuck and doesn't update
On occasion, the git information on mode-line, gets stuck and will not update. For example if I checkout to a different branch, the old branch will still be shown. Or the "mod" indicator will remain ...
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Is there a common way to open "svn-status" or "magit" depending on current buffers system?
before I sit down and reinvent the wheel for me:
I'm working with svn and git in different projects. Is there already an existing way to start svn-status or magit, depending on the vcs that is used ...
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How to change options passed to git vc-annotate?
I have a hard time using vc-annotate (my version control system is git), because the output is not very userfriendly, as it displays long filenames in a separate column in the buffer, which take up ...
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diff-refine-hunk with unified diff
Problem
Some versions of diff (notably, busybox diff in every build of BusyBox I've seen) only produce "unified" diff format output, they don't produce the output that GNU diff produces by default.
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Ignoring newline changes in smerge-diff-mine-other
For me, smerge-diff-mine-other seems to ignore changes in the number of whitespace characters where there is whitespace, but I would sometimes like it to ignore all whitespace, including newlines - ...
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super detailed vc-change-log
When I do l (vc-print-log) in the *vc-dir* buffer, I get the *vc-change-log* buffer with a single line per commit.
Even when I can hit RET (log-view-toggle-entry-display) there to get the details, I ...
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Version control: how to inhibit opening email buffer upon breaking lock
My work uses GNU RCS for our version control system, but I don't think the specific VCS is relevant here. (I know RCS isn't the most modern system but it suits our needs fine and has the advantage of ...
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Discarding modified hunk at current position
I'd like to discard modified hunks (and ideally, view the diff before) basing on the current buffer position.
I have diff-hl so that it's quite obvious which part of a buffer are modified. Now, how ...
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Show change log of other branch with vc-git
When using VC for a Git repository on Emacs 24.3, I want to view commits in a different branch from the one I've checked out.
It seems like C-u C-x v l should be command for that, as it asks Log from ...
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Ignore multiple files in VC mode
In VC Directory Mode, how do I ignore multiple files?
My use case is that I have a LaTeX repository (in SVN, but that should not matter) with over 15 *.aux files in a subdirectory.
Attempt 1
Mark a ...
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Indicate whether file has uncommited changes in mode line
In my mode line I can see if a buffer has unsaved changes (**- or a red x in my case, since I am using smart-mode-line).
Is there a similar way to display whether or not the file visited by the ...
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How to "svn revert <file>" with Emacs Version Control?
How can I do a svn revert <file> from Emacs Version Control?
I've read many parts of the manual, but can't find it.
I would like to do it over a file after opening it with vc-directory C-x v d, ...
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Determine if a directory is .gitignored with vc
I would like to determine if the current directory/file is ignored by .gitignore with vc. In this case, only git matters, but of course a general solution would be appreciated.
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Both VC and Magit cannot see global .gitignore
I'm using emacs on Windows and this is long bothered me. All other apps correctly ignore all listed in global .gitignore, but in emacs they are untracked/unregistered and pollute the status window.
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