Doom-emacs: Make Magit more compact / fancy?

[bennyandresen]

Hey,

by default the magit log looks like the following:

Using inspiration / code from other blogs I've modified it to look like this:

Is this something you want to include in the vcs module? As this has the best effect when the project you're viewing is adhering to a specific standard for commit messages then this yields the IMO best effect:

Normal:

Fancy:

Discussion welcome. I've noticed some new magit behavior with the branch color, so this is not yet fully ready it seems. But I think it's quite nice, especially if origin doesn't automatically translate to github.

P.S. I also have some code that forces me to adhere to the commit style. Also not yet production ready.

[bennyandresen]

RE: P.S.
I had to redo the way it works. It seems to be an unsupported interaction between the various modes.

But this is how it looks like:

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[teesloane]

that fancy screenshot looks lovely. Nice work! Can you link some details on what git commit style's you're following to achieve this?

[bennyandresen]

It was all inspired by this blog post: http://www.modernemacs.com/post/pretty-magit/
Initially I also took the code from there but I changed it around a bit to for example allow the remotes to identify if they are gitlab, github, bitbucket or other.

Also see the HN discussion linked at the bottom for a discussion.
And AngularJS's git commit message conventions.

[UndeadKernel]

I imagine this could be a module option for magit. With a statement like

(doom! :tools (magit +fancy))

we could get an optional fancy interface.

[hliebert]

I might be in the minority on this, but I personally find this look quite distracting and would not consider this an improvement. Making it optional is perfectly fine, I don't think it makes a great default imho.