I'm not going to lie to you; fugitive.vim may very well be the best Git wrapper of all time. Check out these features:
View any blob, tree, commit, or tag in the repository with :Gedit
(and
:Gsplit
, :Gvsplit
, :Gtabedit
, ...). Edit a file in the index and
write to it to stage the changes. Use :Gdiff
to bring up the staged
version of the file side by side with the working tree version and use
Vim's diff handling capabilities to stage a subset of the file's
changes.
Bring up the output of git status
with :Gstatus
. Press -
to
add
/reset
a file's changes, or p
to add
/reset
--patch
. And guess
what :Gcommit
does!
:Gblame
brings up an interactive vertical split with git blame
output. Press enter on a line to edit the commit where the line
changed, or o
to open it in a split. When you're done, use :Gedit
in the historic buffer to go back to the work tree version.
:Gmove
does a git mv
on a file and simultaneously renames the
buffer. :Gdelete
does a git rm
on a file and simultaneously deletes
the buffer.
Use :Ggrep
to search the work tree (or any arbitrary commit) with
git grep
, skipping over that which is not tracked in the repository.
:Glog
loads all previous revisions of a file into the quickfix list so
you can iterate over them and watch the file evolve!
:Gread
is a variant of git checkout -- filename
that operates on the
buffer rather than the filename. This means you can use u
to undo it
and you never get any warnings about the file changing outside Vim.
:Gwrite
writes to both the work tree and index versions of a file,
making it like git add
when called from a work tree file and like
git checkout
when called from the index or a blob in history.
Use :Gbrowse
to open the current file on the web front-end of your favorite
hosting provider, with optional line range (try it in visual mode!). Built-in
support is provided for git instaweb
, and plugins are available for popular
providers such as GitHub, GitLab, and
Bitbucket.
Add %{FugitiveStatusline()}
to 'statusline'
to get an indicator
with the current branch in (surprise!) your statusline.
Last but not least, there's :Git
for running any arbitrary command,
and Git!
to open the output of a command in a temp file.
- A complement to command line git
- Working with the git index
- Resolving merge conflicts with vimdiff
- Browsing the git object database
- Exploring the history of a git repository
If you don't have a preferred installation method, one option is to install pathogen.vim, and then copy and paste:
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive.git
vim -u NONE -c "helptags vim-fugitive/doc" -c q
If your Vim version is below 7.2, I recommend also installing vim-git for syntax highlighting and other Git niceties.
Why don't any of the commands exist?
Fugitive cares about the current file, not the current working directory.
Edit a file from the repository. To avoid the blank window problem, favor
commands like :split
and :tabedit
over commands like :new
and :tabnew
.
Here's a patch that automatically opens the quickfix window after
:Ggrep
.
This is a great example of why I recommend asking before patching.
There are valid arguments to be made both for and against automatically
opening the quickfix window. Whenever I have to make an arbitrary
decision like this, I ask what Vim would do. And Vim does not open a
quickfix window after :grep
.
Luckily, it's easy to implement the desired behavior without changing fugitive.vim. The following autocommand will cause the quickfix window to open after any grep invocation:
autocmd QuickFixCmdPost *grep* cwindow
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Copyright (c) Tim Pope. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself.
See :help license
.