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Magit depends on the dash
, ghub
, graphql
, magit-popup
, treepy
and
with-editor
libraries which are available from Melpa and Melpa-Stable.
Install them using M-x package-install RET <package> RET
. Of course
you may also install them manually from their repository.
Then clone the Magit repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/magit/magit.git ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/magit $ cd ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/magit
Then compile the libraries and generate the info manuals:
$ make
If you haven’t installed dash
, ghub
, graphql
, magit-popup
, treepy
and
with-editor
from Melpa or at /path/to/magit/../<package>
, then you
have to tell make
where to find them. To do so create the file
/path/to/magit/config.mk
with the following content before running
make
:
LOAD_PATH = -L /path/to/magit/lisp LOAD_PATH += -L /path/to/dash LOAD_PATH += -L /path/to/ghub LOAD_PATH += -L /path/to/graphql LOAD_PATH += -L /path/to/magit-popup LOAD_PATH += -L /path/to/treepy LOAD_PATH += -L /path/to/with-editor
Finally add this to your init file:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/magit/lisp") (require 'magit) (with-eval-after-load 'info (info-initialize) (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/magit/Documentation/"))
Note that you have to add the lisp
subdirectory to the load-path
, not
the top-level of the repository, and that elements of load-path
should
not end with a slash, while those of Info-directory-list
should.
Instead of requiring the feature magit
, you could load just the
autoload definitions, by loading the file magit-autoloads.el
.
(load "/path/to/magit/lisp/magit-autoloads")
Instead of running Magit directly from the repository by adding that
to the load-path
, you might want to instead install it in some other
directory using sudo make install
and setting load-path
accordingly.
To update Magit use:
$ git pull $ make
At times it might be necessary to run make clean all
instead.
To view all available targets use make help
.
Now see Post-Installation Tasks.
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