Magit - How to expand all and collapse all sections in magit-status

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Pressing TAB on a single unstaged file shows or hides details pertaining to that file.

How do I show & hide (toggle) details of all unstaged files at once?

I did come across outline-hide-sublevels via M-x. But I would like to know a key combination to do this in a toggle fashion.

I also typed ? to check the keybinding shortcuts for the magit-status area but could not find an answer.

Jack · Accepted Answer

I think you want M-TAB magit-section-cycle-diffs

Cycle the visibility of diff-related sections in the current buffer.

https://magit.vc/manual/magit.html#Section-Visibility-1

David · Answer

The following works as an replacement to M-tab.

(define-key magit-mode-map [(control >)] 'magit-section-cycle-diffs)

M-tab doesn't work on most MS Windows systems

Micah Elliott · Answer

You can use S-TAB (that's shift) to invoke magit-section-cycle-global for a coarse-granularity full-expand and -collapse.

Elardus Erasmus · Answer

Another method (if you do not want to change key bindings for the M-TAB solution) is to position your cursor on the line with the section heading, e.g. "Unstaged changes", and press 2 to collapse all changes in that section, or 4 to expand them.

It also works for collapsing/expanding changes per subsection/file.

Magit - How to expand all and collapse all sections in magit-status

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