CHANGELOG

v4.3.1 UNRELEASED

Bugfixes:

• magit-commit-revise failed if no arguments were used. #5306

v4.3.0 2025-02-04

• Added new option magit-refs-show-branch-descriptions. 42ed6c1966
• When a stash cannot be applied using the trivial method, the user is offered some fallback methods. The presentation of those has been improved. #5253 a08b4dd513
• Added new hook options magit-revision-wash-message-hook and magit-log-wash-summary-hook, and populate them with new and existing highlighting functions, making it easier to remove default highlighting and to add custom highlighting. This also increases consistency between how commit summaries are shown in logs and when displaying complete commit messages. f54fce0ecc..b86fe009e2
• amend! markers are now highlighted like fixup! and squash! markers. #5261
• magit-commit-create no longer amends to HEAD when called with a prefix argument. The magit-commit menu offers four amend commands. That should be good enough. 5e60aa72e5
• magit-commit no longer features the obscure magit-commit-reshelve by default, but it can quickly be reinstated, using the level mechanism. 20eb323b47
• Added new commands magit-commit-alter and magit-commit-revise, completing the already extensive set of “fixup” commands. #5261
• Improved commit menu, documentation and implementation details. #5261
• The branch at point is detected in more contexts now, i.e., when there is not actually a branch at point, but one can unambigiously be derived from the thing at point. 4876f1921e
• Reworked magit-process-password-prompt-regexps to be more permissive and better structured. Hopefully that means we have to extend it less frequently going forward, when users run into new prompts. #5288
• Speed up listing untracked files in the status buffer, simplify how the list is configured, and give up on optionally using a tree. #5284
• Argument --signoff is now available in all menus that create commits. However, it is no longer shown in any menu by default. See the end of Enabling and Disabling Suffixes to learn how to enable it in all menus at once in a single action. #5297
• Began using the ## macro from the llama package. 0a64982100
• Stopped depending on the dash package. e40e8f1994

Bug fixes:

• When applying a stash, it was not always discovered when the trivial method was unsuccessful, and so the user was not offered the use of a fallback method. #5253 929eb4dca5
• git-commit.el did not require magit-process, which was only a problem when it is loaded without also loading the rest of Magit. #5280.
• The use of an external diff drivers was not prevented in some places. #5282
• magit-blame-maybe-show-message did not protect against interpreting % in commit messages as %-specs. d0e795f423
• Parts of commit message headers lost the intended background color. 46c3d8b0ad
• The confirmation prompt of magit-worktree-delete failed to name the affected worktree. #5286
• The wrong suffix color was used for magit-commit-absorb and magit-commit-autofixup. bfadd41079
• magit-stash-index did not use magit-stash-read-message-function. #5295
• Fixed an error that occured when creating magit-hunk-section-map and the user has disabled smerge-command-prefix. The same bug exists in Emacs since 29.1, so this will only help users stuck on Emacs 28. #5300
• When the value of a diff or log menu was being initialized from the arguments in the current buffer and the diff/log was already limited to a set of files, then all other arguments were discarded. #5304

v4.2.0 2025-01-01

• At least Git 2.25.0 is required now. 033a0c0cdc
• At least Emacs 27.1 is required now. c1a86066e8
• Added new command magit-toggle-profiling. f637dd1877
• Added new command magit-toggle-subprocess-record. ec1f403af1

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a regression in transient-init-value. 5b4c4aea1b
• Fixed setting fill-paragraph-function in git-commit-setup-changelog-support. 139e0fcff3
• magit-log-refresh lacked the --since and --until arguments, which were already available in magit-log. 3ecebe8d11
• Enabling verbose output in magit-commit-absorb caused an error. #5272
• In logs, no longer strip heads/ prefix from branch names if a tag with the same name exists. 5cb3492464
• magit-list-special-refnames returned nonsense. #5277

v4.1.3 2024-12-06

• For most important sections, if an error occurs while inserting the section, the error message is now displayed in the section body. #5255
• magit-submodule-populate now supports --recursive. #5191 #5256
• Improved magit-process-password-prompt-regexps. #5257

Bug fixes:

• magit-stash-pop and magit-stash-apply sometimes installed conflicts for the user to resolve that are more complicated than they need to be. #5253
• magit-stash-push placed -- before other arguments. #5260
• magit-autorevert failed to require magit-process. #5263

v4.1.2 2024-11-02

• Add various minor process logging improvements: 5b30c05d3a magit–git-insert: Collapse process section if appropriate b11524120e magit–git-insert: Optionally always log to process buffer cd6cf89d6a Use different face for debug-only process sections bba06845de magit-process-insert-section: Improve file-path comparison f2a6133443 magit-run-git-async: No longer clutter *Messages* buffer

Bug fixes:

• If the left margin was in use before magit-blame-mode started using that margin, then the old width was not restored when the mode was disabled. #5236
• Prior to Tramp being loaded, setting magit-tramp-pipe-stty-settings to nil resulted in an error, due to tramp-pipe-stty-settings not being bound yet. #5240
• magit-copy-section-value no longer did anything for most section types. #5244.
• Global git arguments often got added twice to the list of arguments ultimately passed to git. 914285a5e8
• Inserting the headers of status buffers involves temporary changes to magit-insert-section-hook. These changes were not restricted to the current buffer, causing errors when magit-git-debug is enabled and we thus insert sections in the process buffer, while the status buffer is being refreshed. 11e13640c4
• Some git errors were not logged despite magit-git-debug being enabled. 874fb0fede
• magit-browse-thing and magit-visit-thing tried to turn anything at point into an URL. Now the bail if there is no URL at point. 7c842b8ac0

v4.1.1 2024-10-01

• Avoid unnecessary work when auto-revert-remote-files is nil. #5222
• Improved default choice offered by magit-branch-reset and magit-reset-*. #5230

Bug fixes:

• Added a workaround for a regression in Git v2.46.0. #5212
• Section-specific bindings were removed when a section was expanded whose body is not inserted until the expansion takes place. 9395de2c94
• Addressed an incompatibility with Eglot. #5226
• Adapted to a change in define-globalized-minor-mode in Emacs 30, which caused diff-hl-mode to be enabled in blob buffers. #5229
• When adding the commit at point to the completion defaults, it was assumed that minibuffer-default-add-function cannot be nil. 6d0075f523
• magit-blame--format-string-1 didn’t handle a list of faces correctly. 5395798301
• Addressed an incompatibility with Indent-Bars. #5233

v4.1.0 2024-09-01

• The library git-commit.el is no longer distributed as a separate package, git-commit, but as part of the magit package.
• Improved magit-tag-release’s consistency and handling of arguments. #5102
• Updated tooling and other housekeeping.

Bug fixes:

• Only use an explicit range in magit-insert-recent-commits, when also using --graph. With --graph it increases performance noticeably, but without it decreases performance somewhat. #5075
• magit-completing-read-multiple now shows the default choice in the prompt, if a completion framework is used, for which that is useful. #5205.

Older releases

See docs/RelNotes/.