Fugitive is billed as the premier Vim plugin for Git.
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.
Fugitive is free and open source software.
Features include:
- The default behavior is to directly echo the command’s output. Quiet commands like :Git add avoid the dreaded “Press ENTER or type command to continue” prompt.
- :Git commit, :Git rebase -i, and other commands that invoke an editor do their editing in the current Vim instance.
- :Git diff, :Git log, and other verbose, paginated commands have their output loaded into a temporary buffer. Force this behavior for any command with :Git –paginate or :Git -p.
- :Git blame uses a temporary buffer with maps for additional triage. Press enter on a line to view the commit where the line changed, or g? to see other available maps. Omit the filename argument and the currently edited file will be blamed in a vertical, scroll-bound split.
- :Git mergetool and :Git difftool load their changesets into the quickfix list.
- Called with no arguments, :Git opens a summary window with dirty files and unpushed and unpulled commits. Press g? to bring up a list of maps for numerous operations including diffing, staging, committing, rebasing, and stashing. (This is the successor to the old :Gstatus.)
- This command (along with all other commands) always uses the current buffer’s repository, so you don’t need to worry about the current working directory.
Website: www.vim.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Tim Pope
License: Vim License
Fugitive is written in VimL. Learn VimL with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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