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Magit Reference Card: Getting Help in Emacs

This document provides a summary of keyboard shortcuts for getting help and navigating sections, staging changes, viewing Git output, and using status, diff, log, and reference buffers in the Magit interface for Emacs. It outlines commands for previous/next section, toggling section visibility, staging/unstaging changes, killing processes, and refreshing/burying buffers, as well as commands for specific buffers like blaming, diffing, and log views.

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Magit Reference Card: Getting Help in Emacs

This document provides a summary of keyboard shortcuts for getting help and navigating sections, staging changes, viewing Git output, and using status, diff, log, and reference buffers in the Magit interface for Emacs. It outlines commands for previous/next section, toggling section visibility, staging/unstaging changes, killing processes, and refreshing/burying buffers, as well as commands for specific buffers like blaming, diffing, and log views.

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Magit Reference Card

Getting help in Emacs


C-h k 〈key〉 describe function bound to 〈key〉
C-h b list the current key-bindings for the focus buffer
C-h m describe mode
C-h l show the keys you have pressed
〈prefix〉 C-h show all key-bindings beginning with 〈prefix〉

Section Movement Section Visibility


p previous section
n next section TAB toggle visibility of current section

P previous sibling section C-TAB cycle visibility of section and children


N next sibling section M-TAB cycle visibility of diff-related sections
ˆ parent section S-TAB cycle visibility of all sections in buffer

Staging Status/Diff/Log Buffer

s stage change at point SPC update commit/diff buffer or scroll up


u unstage change at point DEL update commit/diff buffer or scroll down
S stage all changes in worktree h show dispatch popup
U reset index to some commit g refresh
M-x magit-unstage-all remove all changes G refresh all
M-x magit-stage-file stage current file q bury current buffer
M-x magit-unstage-file unstage current file L toggle margin
x soft reset (hard when argument is given)
View Git Output y show references (tags and branches)
Y cherry
$ display process buffer for current repository C-c C-b move backward in buffer’s history
k kill process represented by section at point C-c C-f move forward in buffer’s history

Popups

! running git f fetching o submoduling


b branching F pulling r rebasing
B bisecting l logging w apply patches
c committing m merging W format patches
d diffing M remoting t tagging
E ediff P pushing z stashing
Status/Diff/Log Buffer References Buffer

y compare references with HEAD


e ediff DWIM
c compare references with current branch
i gitignore
o compare references with other branch
I gitignore locally
Blaming
Diff Buffer
M-x magit-blame display edit history of file
RET show the commit at point
RET visit file (or blob) at appropriate position
SPC update commit/diff buffer or scroll up
C-RET visit file at appropriate position
DEL update commit/diff buffer or scroll down
− decrease context of diff hunks
n move to the next chunk
+ increase context of diff hunks N move to the next chunk (same commit)
0 reset context of diff hunks to default height p move to the previous chunk
j jump to diff stat ↔ diff section P move to the previous chunk (same commit)
q turn off magit blame mode
Log Buffer t show or hide blame chunk headings

Repository Setup
+ show more history
C-c C-c select commit at point and act on it M-x magit-init initialize a Git repository
C-c C-k abort selecting commit M-x magit-clone clone a repository

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