Git

Packages to interfere with the git version control system.

Full interfaces

Magit

Magit is a great Emacs mode for working with Git repositories. It provides a convenient interface for the most common Git operations. Please visit its own Magit page.

Specific use cases

Git blame

Git-blame is a package, available in ELPA, which provides a minor mode for incremental blame.

Show last commit message for current line

This package provides a function called git-messenger:popup-message that when called will pop-up the last git commit message for the current line. This uses the git-blame tool internally.

Available in ELPA.

Highlight uncommited changes

Git gutter

Git-gutter is an extension to highlight uncommitted changes on the left side of the window, indicating wether a line has been inserted, modified or deleted, and allowing you to jump between and revert them selectively. diff-hl does it too and works with Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Svn, and it provides similar functionnality for dired. Both are available in ELPA. They are Tramp-aware.

After installation, call the minor modes or enable them:

   (add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'git-gutter-mode)

Jump between changes

To jump between changes: M-x git-gutter:next-hunk or M-x diff-hl-next-hunk.

Highlight diffs

Diff-hl goes a little further than git-gutter in that it can highlight the uncommited diffs, even from Dired. And we can get them on the fly while we type:

   (diff-hl-flydiff-mode)

Commit on every change

git-auto-commit-mode (on MELPA) is a minor mode that tries to commit a change to a file after every save. It can also push automatically.

See previous versions of file

It's very easy with git-timemachine. Once you have called M-x git-timemachine you'll have the keys:

• p Visit previous historic version
• n Visit next historic version
• w Copy the abbreviated hash of the current historic version
• W Copy the full hash of the current historic version
• g Goto nth revision
• q Exit the time machine.

Choose an issue against the current list in a commit buffer

With github, gitlab and others, it is possible to refer to a particular issue in a commit. So, in Emacs, it would be handy to pick our issue in the list of open issues, instead of remembering its id. This is possible with the git-commit-insert-issue package (only github at the moment), which provides an interactive helm interface.

See also

See also the full list of packages to interact with Github, Gitlab and others in the Github page.

See a full list and a method to install them all at once on tarsiu's github page.