spacemacs/layers/+source-control/github

GitHub layer

• Description
  • Features:
• Install
  • Layer
  • Git configuration
  • Forge
• Key bindings
  • Forge
  • gist.el
  • Clone repositories

Description

This layers adds support for GitHub.

Features:

• forge: integration with various forges, such as GitHub and GitLab.
• gist.el: full-featured mode to browse and post GitHub gists.
• git-link: quickly generate URLs for commits or files.
• github-clone allows for easy cloning and forking of repositories.

Install

Layer

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add github to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Git configuration

You will need to generate a personal access token on GitHub. This token should have the gist and repo permissions. Once this token is created, it needs to be added to your ~/.gitconfig

You will also need to generate an SSH key and add it to your GitHub account.

  git config --global github.oauth-token <token>

Forge

The forge package uses emacsql which requires a C compiler to be available on MS Windows, see issue https://github.com/skeeto/emacsql/issues/46.

For this reason the forge package is not installed on MS Windows by default. If you still want to install it (which means you do have a C compiler available in your PATH) then use the dotspacemacs-additional-packages variable in your dotfile:

  (dotspacemacs-additional-packages '((forge :toggle t)))

Key bindings

Forge

In a magit-status buffer (SPC g s):

Key binding	Description
b Y	create branch from pull-request
b y	create and check out branch from pull-request
F f	fetch issues and pull-requests
F n	fetch notifications
F p	create pull-request
F i	create issue
F F	list notifications
F P	list pull-requests
F I	list issues
p y	pull pull-requests and issues for the current repository
p Y	pull all notifications for the current repository's forge

In a forge-topic buffer:

Key binding	Description
SPC m c	create new post
SPC m e	edit post

In a forge-post buffer (assuming the major mode leader key is ,)

Key binding	Description
SPC m c or SPC m ,	submit post
SPC m k or SPC m k	cancel post

gist.el

Key binding	Description
SPC g g b	create a public gist with the buffer content
SPC g g B	create a private gist with the buffer content
SPC g g l	open the gist list buffer
SPC g g r	create a public gist with the region content
SPC g g R	create a private gist with the region content

In the gist list buffer:

Key binding	Description
/	evil search
+	add buffer to gist
-	remove file for gist
b or o	open current gist in browser
f	fetch current gist
g	refresh the list
h	go left
j	go down
k	go up
K	kill current gist
l	go right
n	next search occurrence
N	next previous occurrence
v	visual state
V	visual-line state
y	print URL and copy it

Clone repositories

Key binding	Description
SPC g h c /	search for a repository to clone it
SPC g h c c	clone and optionally fork repository
SPC g h c r	add a remote that is an existing fork of selected remote
SPC g h c f	fork remote in current user namespace
SPC g h c u	add upstream as remote