Pinning Magit to Melpa Stable

To pin Magit and some related packages to Melpa-Stable, you have to do the following.

1. If you haven’t added Melpa-Stable to package-archives yet, then you have to do so now. Add Melpa-Stable the same way you have added Melpa. The simplest form to do so is:

    (add-to-list 'package-archives
   		  '("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/")
   		  t)
       

2. Add Magit and the other packages to package-pinned-packages.

   (add-to-list 'package-pinned-packages '(magit . "melpa-stable"))
   
   (add-to-list 'package-pinned-packages '(ghub . "melpa-stable"))
   (add-to-list 'package-pinned-packages '(git-commit . "melpa-stable"))
   (add-to-list 'package-pinned-packages '(magit-popup . "melpa-stable"))
   (add-to-list 'package-pinned-packages '(with-editor . "melpa-stable"))
       

   Right now these other packages still support Emacs 24.4 and 24.5, but that might change, so it is better to pin them now too.

3. Uninstall and then reinstall the pinned packages.

   M-x package-delete RET magit RET
   
   M-x package-delete RET ghub RET
   M-x package-delete RET git-commit RET
   M-x package-delete RET magit-popup RET
   M-x package-delete RET with-editor RET
   
   M-x package-install RET magit RET
       

   This is necessary because otherwise you would get stuck on snapshot versions such as 20180601.1234, instead of “downgrading” to 2.13.0. Eventually a 2.13.1 bugfix release will be created and if you haven’t installed 2.13.0 by then, then you will be stock on a snapshot version (because Melpa-style snapshot version strings are always higher versions according to version< et al. than any released version).