Ibuffer-git: See your files' git status in Ibuffer

http://jrockway.github.com/ibuffer-git/

by jrockway • 16 years ago

34 17 16 years ago

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There was an HN article a few days ago complaining about this not existing. Now it exists.

jrockway6• 16 years ago

An article posted here a few days ago suggested that it would be a good idea to integrate things like open files, project, version control status, etc., so here is one more piece of that puzzle.

(For project support in emacs, try eproject; http://github.com/jrockway/eproject)

avar4• 16 years ago

That's very useful. I've got it installed already.

Here's a small patch to it to make it work without your dotemacs: http://github.com/avar/ibuffer-git/commit/59674f

And here's what I had to do to get it working with my dotemacs which uses autoloads instead of loading everything at startup: http://github.com/avar/dotemacs/commit/9bd611

One day I'll figure out how eproject works, and customize-variable, and everything else I haven't looked at in Emacs yet :)

jrockway6• 16 years ago

Nice. Just FYI, eproject shouldn't be required for this; the functionalities are orthogonal.

And BTW, I just start my emacs when I login with "emacs --daemon". A few seconds of latency at startup is better than the latency whenever I first use something. And it's easier to program for :)

avar4• 16 years ago

It's required for using your ibuffer-format which references eproject. I couldn't be bothered to customize it to something different.

I should probably learn to use eproject anyway.

tumult3• 16 years ago

I use magit right now, but one thing about using emacs and the commandline that bugged me when I tried it was that when changing branches, I would be prompted for what to do with each open file that had changed. Is there a good workflow solution for this?

avar4• 16 years ago

Yes. You create a stash with your changes, or commit them before switching branches.

tumult3• 16 years ago

Well, I mean with files that are open and unmodified. If I change to a different branch to work on something else, emacs will prompt me for what to do with each open file that is different between branches.

almost2• 16 years ago

What this really needs is a way of performing git operations on the files in the iBuffer, then it would be a nice replacement for the various git modes for emacs.

jrockway6• 16 years ago

I think Magit works pretty well for this. I will think about it some more; Ibuffer is probably not the right place for everything, but something more coherent could be good.

almost2• 16 years ago

Magit is pretty good, but it's quite nice to have things based on common bits.

st3fan• 16 years ago

This is very nice. Does anyone know of a similar emacs extension for mercurial?

jrockway6• 16 years ago

Should be a matter of changing 2 lines of code; one to run the status command, one to parse the output.

Ibuffer-git: See your files' git status in Ibuffer

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