Hide branch from modeline?

Question

Magit is eating up a lot of my modeline to display the current git branch ... or at least I think it's magit that's doing so, honestly I can't find any way to tell where it's coming from. I can always find that out other ways and it's pushing out other stuff I would rather have in my modeline (namely which-function-mode).

Is there any way to disable this? I don't see anything relevant in the customize menu or in the magit manual.

Answer 1

I did finally stumble onto the customizable variable mode-line-format I just moved (vc-mode vc-mode) from the middle to the right and now it's out of my way!

Answer 2

It's not Magit that's putting the branch in the mode line, but vc-git, more specifically the function vc-git-mode-line-string. I can't see any way to customize it, so the only way to remove the branch name from the mode line is to redefine or advice this function.

For example:

(advice-add 'vc-git-mode-line-string
            :override (lambda (file) ""))