Questions tagged [vc]
`vc.el` is a generic version control interface that comes with Emacs. It supports Git, CVS, RCS, SRC, GNU Subversion, Bzr, Mercurial, Monotone and SCCS (CSSC)
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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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Is there a more async or lazy vc-mode?
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Does a "lazy" or "asynchronous" vc mode exist?
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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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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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Potential reason why vc-annotate output is sometimes incomplete?
On Emacs 27.1 running on Linux, with Subversion backend, vc-annotate does not always annotate the complete file (seen on 3000-lines, 110KB text file). The vc-annotate-mode buffer holds the beginning ...
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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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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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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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Cannot make vc-style wrapping of git commit to work
None of these functions currently perform works as I except:
(defun vc-git-commit ()
"Commit (via git)."
(interactive)
(vc-git--run-command-string nil "commit")
(vc-dir-...
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Prevent `vc-dir` from showing untracked directories recursively
Is there a setting to prevent vc-dir from showing untracked directories recursively and instead only show the directory as untracked? The former alternative is way to slow and should IMO be the ...
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Run a command after vc-git-log-outgoing
I'm trying to fix a problem with this project: https://github.com/domtronn/spaceline-all-the-icons.el
Specifically this code which is supposed to count the number of commits ahead of another branch ...
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Emacs 28.2 VC-git crashes on Mac Studio Ventura
I migrated from a trashcan Intel MacPro running macOS Monterey to a MacStudio running Ventura.
I installed Emacs from https://emacsformacosx.com/, version 28.2. On the Intel MacPro I am using Emacs 26....
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prevent symbolic link follow from git repo HOWTO
I have git repo here: ~/git/myrepo/
then I do:
ln -s ~/external_dir ~/git/myrepo
emacs follows symbolic link when opening the file: ~/git/myrepo/external_dir/somefile.txt
I'd like to prevent it, ...
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Run pre-commit hooks when using magit, poetry, and tramp
This is an emacs & magit version of the following question, with an added twist.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72839263/access-python-interpreter-in-vscode-version-controll-when-using-pre-...
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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 ...
