What magit hook is right to run forge-pull automatically for the status buffer?

[ag91]

Hi,

forge is an amazing help in working with GitHub! I usually open Magit with magit-status and it would be great if I could get forge updates at that time by running forge-pull automatically. I tried a few hooks but apparently they get invoked too often:
what do you hook forge-pull to?

Thanks!

[tarsius]

I would recommend against doing this. It seems unnecessary; fetching explicitly is simple enough and too slow to do it all the time. And as you have noticed automatically doing it when you want it to happen but not doing it when you don't want it to happen isn't trivial.

If you want to do it anyway then:

1. Advice magit-status-setup-buffer.
2. Make sure you use a magit-bury-buffer-function that buries the buffer but does not kill it.
3. Replace you global binding for magit-status to use magit-status-quick instead.

[ag91]

Oh, I thought it was a good idea! Thanks, I will follow your recommendation. I will just bind it to a key in the magit-status keymap, so that I don't have to type the whole command :)

[tarsius]

Will that binding be shorter than the default f n? 😀

[ag91]

oh! I didn't know about that: thanks again!! I think (use-pakage :after magit) doesn't setup my keybindings in the magit-status so I never saw it: I shall fix that. Amazing!

[DivineDominion]

Thanks for the f n hint -- didn't realize the f menu was expanded!