5.1.4 Status Options

User Option: magit-status-refresh-hook

Hook run after a status buffer has been refreshed.

User Option: magit-status-margin

This option specifies whether the margin is initially shown in Magit-Status mode buffers and how it is formatted.

The value has the form (INIT STYLE WIDTH AUTHOR AUTHOR-WIDTH).

• If INIT is non-nil, then the margin is shown initially.
• STYLE controls how to format the committer date. It can be one of age (to show the age of the commit), age-abbreviated (to abbreviate the time unit to a character), or a string (suitable for format-time-string) to show the actual date.
• WIDTH controls the width of the margin. This exists for forward compatibility and currently the value should not be changed.
• AUTHOR controls whether the name of the author is also shown by default.
• AUTHOR-WIDTH has to be an integer. When the name of the author is shown, then this specifies how much space is used to do so.

User Option: magit-log-section-args

Additional Git arguments used when creating log sections. Only --graph, --decorate, and --show-signature are supported. This option is only a temporary kludge and will be removed.

Note that due to an issue in Git the use of --graph is very slow with long histories, so you probably don’t want to add this here.

Also see the proceeding section for more options concerning status buffers.