Tag Archives: Magit

Prathamesh Sonpatki has a useful post that shows how to make pull requests for GitHub and GitLab from Emacs using Magit. Sonpatki took some code from one of Artur Malabarba’s posts on Endless Parentheses and made the trivial changes necessary … Continue reading →

John Weigley has an excellent video on using Magit. It’s very comprehensive and the content is quite dense so you may want to watch it more than once. He covers the usual easy commands that everybody uses but also some … Continue reading →

I learned two things I didn’t know about Magit from a post by Marcin Borkowski (mbork). The first is that you can exclude files locally. That is, you can ignore files just as if they were in .gitignore but that … Continue reading →

For those of you who like to work in the terminal, UnwashedMeme over at the Emacs subreddit has a handy tip. It’s an alias that brings up an Emacs buffer with the Magit status buffer. This doesn’t enable any new … Continue reading →

Here’s a really useful tip from Wildred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day: Want to know all the commits that affected a function?@magit_emacs as of version 2.13 provides M-x magit-log-trace-definition for this! For any language that git log understands, it … Continue reading →

There isn’t much git work that you can’t do from within Magit but occasionally it’s convenient to call git directly. In another great tip from Wilfred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day we have: Want to run a raw git … Continue reading →

Jonas Bernoulli, the maintainer of Magit, has a nice post entitled A walk through the Magit interface. It discusses the most-used Magit features and how to access them through Magit’s interface. All that information is in the documentation, of course, … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky has added another great video to his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about Magit. Regular watchers of his videos have been agitating for some time for Zamansky to do a video on Magit but he resisted on … Continue reading →

Here’s a really nice tip from Wilfred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day Twitter feed: M-x magit-log-buffer-file: shows all the commits that affected the current file. Great for understanding the history of some code! pic.twitter.com/psiuHb2cQm — Ⓔ Command of the … Continue reading →

Regular readers know that I’m a huge fan of Magit. It is, along with Org Mode, one of the killer apps in Emacs. Now Jonas Bernoulli has announced a Kickstarter campaign to fund further development: Magit, the magical Git client … Continue reading →