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Definitely, soon. But the issues in the following milestones have to be addressed first: a, b. We will enter feature freeze soonish.
If you are using the development version of Emacs you have to also use the development version of Magit by either using Melpa or installing Magit from git. This is due to an incompatible change in delete-directory in Emacs-bzr.
The main benefit of the new workflow is that we can avoid duplicating functionality available from git. But unfortunately it only works when Emacsclient knows how to connect to the Emacs server. Also some features of the old commit mode have not yet made their way to the new mode.
The old workflow might be partially restored by offering vc-git-log-edit as an option. Nothing decided yet.
Magit recently switched from magit-log-edit-mode to git-commit-mode to edit commit messages. This caused a few problems, and these issues are being investigated and addressed.
- In progress 801 - magit-commit-internal still has serious quirks
- Windows should be fixed 805 - Magit cannot access Emacs server on Windows
- OS X mostly fixed 862 - New Magit Commit mode is opening new instance of Emacs to write commit message in OS X/Emacs
- Linux, BSD Congratulations: you are using a package manager that ensures the integrity of your installation, problems are unlikely :-)
- Full lists of related open and closed issues.
That is what happens when everything else fails, it's the fallback we added as last resort, so that you can at least finish the commit.
On GNU/Linux and the BSDs finding the emacsclient executable usually works without any problems. Unfortunately it is possible to install Emacs on OS X and Windows in a usable fashion without actually placing the emacs and emacsclient executables on $PATH. We have added various hacks to deal with such breakage.
Since you are reading this, it appears we missed yet another special case. To quickly work around this locate the executable manually and set magit-emacsclient-executable accordingly. But please also inform as about the specifics of your installation, so that we can add a fix for other users who have installed Emacs in a similar fashion.
The command used to initiate a commit (c) is now a popup like other major commands. This was done for consistency with the rest of Magit and because it is no longer possible to turn on --amend while editing the message. Some people who have initially complained about this eventually come to prefer the new way; hang in there once you have unlearned the old key bindings you might like the change too.
This will be fixed. Doing so involves addressing the oldest open issue, and there is a reason that has been open for so long. It is still possible to display a diff while editing the message but it is not possible to e.g. edit two commit messages in different repositories at the same time.
- 827 - git-commit-mode prevents magit from running any other git operations in any repo
- 24 - magit only supports one Git process at a time
This change will not be reverted. It makes little sense to do that while editing the commit message. One reason for that is that one doesn't get the old message when turning on amending while already in the message buffer.
Also doing so is actually impossible with the new commit workflow. --amend now has to be toggled in the commit popup or using a prefix argument to magit-commit.