How can I get Emacs to revert all unchanged buffers when switching branches in git?

Question

Often, when I switch branches in git, if the files are open in emacs, then emacs asks if I want to revert them (as it thinks they\'ve changed on disk) even though the conten

Answer 1

Try the revbufs package:

revbufs.el is a tiny Emacs package that safely reverts your buffers when you have files being edited both in Emacs and via external tools (e.g., code generators such as Jomtool)...

Answer 2

Perhaps you'd like the global auto-revert mode. Try running global-auto-revert-mode and if you like it you can add (global-auto-revert-mode) to your ~/.emacs file.

Answer 3

Magit package do this automatically, when you activate magit-ionotify-mode (inotify need emacs 24.4 on linux). Its description you can find here.