Thanks for your reply. I did a little more digging, and I think something might be askew with my git-bash on windows, as when I open it up and call git diff on .gitignore, it doesn't actually have any changes to show. not sure what's going on there.
- Erik On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Kyle Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Erik van Zwol <[email protected]> writes: > > > I'm new to magit. I'm in the status buffer, and I only see changes > > made to files in the directory of the file from which I got to the > > status buffer. I am two directory levels down into my project, how do > > I see changes to a file such as .gitignore, which is in the git root > > directory, two levels up? > > That shouldn't be the case. magit-status should open in the top-level > directory of the git repo unless the subdirectory you're in is itself a > top-level directory for another repo. > > So, for example, set up a test repo like so: > > mkdir -p /tmp/test-repo/subdir > cd /tmp/test-repo > git init > echo one > one.txt > echo two > subdir/two.txt > git add one.txt subdir/two.txt > git commit -m"first commit" > echo x >> one.txt > echo y >> subdir/two.txt > > If you go to /tmp/test-repo/subdir/two.txt in Emacs and call > magit-status, you should be taken to a status buffer for /tmp/test-repo/ > that shows the changes in both one.txt and subdir/two.txt. The > default-directory of the status buffer should be /tmp/test-repo/. > > -- > Kyle > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "magit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
