Git modes

GNU Emacs modes for Git-related files.

Features

• git-commit-mode – A major mode for editing Git commit messages according to the guidelines by Tim Pope.
• git-rebase-mode – A major mode for git-rebase-todo files created by git rebase -i
• gitconfig-mode – A conf-mode-derived major mode for editing .gitconfig files.
• gitignore-mode – A conf-mode-derived major mode for editing .gitignore files.
• gitattributes-mode – A major mode for editing .gitattributes files.

The first two modes integrate into Magit.

Installation

Install the ELPA packages from MELPA (bleeding edge snapshots) or Marmalade (stable releases):

• git-commit-mode: M-x package-install git-commit-mode
• git-rebase-mode: M-x package-install git-rebase-mode
• gitconfig-mode: M-x package-install gitconfig-mode
• gitignore-mode: M-x package-install gitignore-mode

Or download the latest release and install the desired modes with M-x package-install-file, e.g. M-x package-install-file git-commit-mode.

The modes are written and tested against GNU Emacs 24 and may or may not work in earlier versions of GNU Emacs.

Usage

git-commit-mode

Just configure emacsclient or emacs as editor for Git. git-commit-mode will automatically be enabled for Git message buffers.

git-rebase-mode

git rebase-mode is automatically enabled for git-rebase-todo files, such as created by git rebase -i.

gitconfig-mode

gitconfig-mode is automatically enabled for .gitconfig, .git/config and git/config files. The mode is derived from conf-unix-mode, so all commands provided by conf-mode (e.g. conf-align-assignments) will work as expected.

gitignore-mode

gitignore-mode is automatically enabled for .gitignore, .git/info/exclude and git/ignore files.

gitattributes-mode

gitattributes-mode is automatically enabled for .gitattributes, .git/info/attributes, and git/attributes.

Customization

• git-commit-mode: M-x customize-group git-commit
• git-rebase-mode: M-x customize-group git-rebase
• gitconfig-mode: No customization provided.
• gitignore-mode: No customization provided.
• gitattributes-mode: M-x customize-group gitattributes-mode.

Further help

• C-h f git-commit-mode
• C-h f git-rebase-mode
• C-h f gitconfig-mode
• C-h f gitignore-mode
• C-h f gitattributes-mode

Credits

git-commit-mode is forked of the original work done by Florian Ragwitz and improved by John Wiegley. And then Sebastian Wiesner took it to the next level.

git-rebase-mode was previously part of Magit as rebase-mode. It was created by Phil Jackson and improved by Peter J. Weisberg.

gitconfig-mode and gitignore-mode were created by Sebastian Wiesner.

gitattributes-mode was created by Rüdiger Sonderfeld.

The following people contributed to these modes:

• Alan Falloon
• Bradley Wright
• Jonas Bernoulli
• Marco Craveiro
• Mitchel Humpherys
• Pekka Pessi
• Peter Eisentraut
• Pieter Praet
• Ramkumar Ramachandra
• Ryan Thompson
• Tim Wraight
• Yann Hodique

An up-to-date list of contributors can also be found here.

Great thanks also goes to Bozhidar Batsov for adding these modes to his awesome Prelude project, thus making them available to a larger user base.

License

Git-Modes is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

Git-Modes is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Git-Modes. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

See COPYING for details.