magit “standalone version”

Magit is a fantastic git frontend for emacs. Altough it is an important part of my emacs workflow, I sometimes work in gitrepository on the naked commandline. Up until now I resolved to tig to get a fast and feature-rich text ui for simple commits, ammends, diffs when pure git was not right for me.

This is a minimal emacs configuration that mimics tig but with the magit implementation.

Obligatory screenshot

Installation

The installation is tested with emacs 25.1.1.

Clone the repository to ~/.magit. One or all of the following:

• make an alias that calls emacs -q --load ~/.magit/init.el.
• put .magit in your path and call magit.
• link ~/.magit/magit to magit in a directory in your path.

Usage

This is to 99.99999% the default emacs configuration. So the almost all emacs users will be fine. For all the other users the most importation shortcut would be C-x-c which means hold Ctrl-Key and press first x and then c.

Please refer to the excellent user manual on how to work with magit.

Uninstallation

If you don’t like it, simple delete ~/.magit and you are done.

Implementation / Tuning

• To switch to the local “magit” configuration the trick in stackoverflow is used.
• el-get is used to make sure magit with all dependencies is available.
• I added my favorite color-theme to the mix.
• All customizations are done directly in init.el to keep the startup time as small as possible. Feel free to adjust the settings to your liking.