Magit 2.7 released

I am excited to announce the release of Magit version 2.7, consisting of 116 commits since the last feature release seven weeks ago. The release notes can be found here.

It’s Magit! A Git Porcelain inside Emacs

Magit is an interface to the version control system Git, implemented as an Emacs package. Magit aspires to be a complete Git porcelain. While we cannot (yet) claim that Magit wraps and improves upon each and every Git command, it is complete enough to allow even experienced Git users to perform almost all of their daily version control tasks directly from within Emacs. While many fine Git clients exist, only Magit and Git itself deserve to be called porcelains.

For more information about Magit, see https://magit.vc.

Overview

Features added in this release include:

• Added support for the Git subcommand subtree. The subtree commands are available from a new popup on O.

• Added support for the Git subcommand worktree and related functionality. The branch popup now features two commands for creating an additional working tree. Existing working trees can be listed in the status buffer by adding magit-insert-worktrees to magit-status-sections-hook and these sections can be used to visit working trees (RET) or to delete them (k).

• Branch variables can now be modified using a separate popup which itself is available from other relevant popups. For backward compatibility reasons the branch popup continues to feature the same variables. Set magit-branch-popup-show-variables to nil to change that.

• The magit-file-popup, intended for use in file-visiting buffers, gained a few additional commands. (To use this popup enable the global mode magit-file-mode, it will then be available on C-c M-g.) There now exist two commands for showing a log for the visited file and likewise two commands for showing such diffs.

• Setting the new option magit-log-buffer-file-locked to t causes the log and diff commands from the magit-file-popup to use separate buffers to show the one-file log/diff. This has the advantage, that when you later want to show a full log/diff using the regular log/diff popup, it isn’t necessary to manually unset the file filter.

Additionally several existing commands have been improved. This release also includes many bug fixes and documentation improvements. For information please also see the release notes.

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