Magit 4.6 Released
13 hours ago
- #Release
- #Git
- #Magit
- Magit version 4.6 released with 313 commits since the last release.
- Magit is a text-based Git user interface streamlining workflows with mnemonic key sequences.
- Improvements focus on blob-visiting buffers, enhancing performance and user experience.
- Volatile blob buffers are cached for reuse, supporting features like syntax-highlighting.
- Blobs can be visited using only a blob object id, not requiring a revision and path.
- Added syntax highlighting for diffs, but it's disabled by default due to synchronous processing delays.
- Future support for asynchronous diff syntax highlighting planned.
- New Git variables introduced for calling Elisp hooks from Git hooks, requiring Git v2.54.0 or greater.
- Commands added for compiling lists of modified definitions in diffs and inserting them into commit messages.
- Completion of symbols in commit messages now includes modified definitions and symbols from changed lines.