Tag Archives: Magit

Git History for Selected Text

Here’s a nice tip for finding all the commits related to some selected text in Magit: In #magit of #emacs, M-x magit-log-buffer-file with a region selected, this will show the region related commits only. https://t.co/bnWwhrGKUw #git — Jumpei KAWAMI (@junkw) … Continue reading

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Discarding Git Commits

Guangwang Huang (Whatacold) has an instructive video on how to discard commits using Magit. There are three methods: Hard reset Revert Soft reset They all have advantages and disadvantages. A hard reset is fast but the discarded commits are deleted. … Continue reading

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Magit 3.3 Released

Tarsius (Jonas Bernoulli) has announced the release of Magit 3.3.0. The link takes you to his GitHub repository Change Log that has a detailed list of changes. If you want the TL;DR, you can check out his blog entry about … Continue reading

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Progress ⁢⨉ 2

There were two bits of progress reported yesterday. The first is the announcement of the release of Magit 3.2. I’d describe the changes, as listed in the announcement, tweaks that make Magit more useful but nothing earth shattering. You can … Continue reading

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System Crafters: Magit 2

David Wilson over at the System Crafters YouTube channel has his second video on Magit up. Irreal looked at the first video a couple of weeks ago. In the current video, Wilson considers some of the intermediate Magit functions. He … Continue reading

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Video Introduction to Magit

Over at the System Crafters Youtube channel, David Wilson has a new video on Magit. It’s the first in a planned series so it serves as an introduction to the most important Magit facilities with more information on them to … Continue reading

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Deleting Git Branches

Over at Emacs Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has a nice post on deleting Git branches. Batsov says that no one really knows how to do it and those who say they do are lying. That may be ever-so-slightly hyperbolic but probably … Continue reading

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More On The Magit Initial Status Page

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about setting the initial visibility of Magit sections. It was a bit of a nuisance but without it I had large expanded sections that invited an inadvertent stage command that could freeze Emacs … Continue reading

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Setting the Initial Visibility of Magit Sections

Like most Emacsers, I very seldom restart Emacs. When I do it’s usually because I just finished my weekly ELPA update. Despite my extensive configuration, Emacs starts up reasonably quickly for me but I still hate restarting it. The major … Continue reading

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Zamansky 62: Magit Forge

Mike Zamansky has posted another great video in his Using Emacs Series. This video takes a look at Magit Forge. It’s available from Melpa and is easy to install. Zamansky shows how easy in the video. Once installed, it just … Continue reading

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