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.
Key Features
- 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.
Related Software
| Text-Based Git Clients | |
|---|---|
| lazygit | Simple yet hugely popular terminal UI for git commands, written in Go |
| GitUI | Offers the comfort of a GUI git client but right in your terminal |
| Fugitive | Vim plugin for Git |
| Magit | Inspect and modify your Git repositories with Emacs |
| tig | ncurses-based Git repository browser |
| Neogit | Git interface plugin for Neovim inspired by Magit |
| forgit | Utility for using git interactively |
| Gitu | TUI Git client inspired by Magit |
| ggc | Go Git CLI |
| GRV | Git Repository Viewer |
| bit | Experimental modernized git CLI |
| pygitzen | Python-native terminal-based Git client |
| gitin | Commit, branch, status explorer for Git |
| Froggit | Modern, minimalist Git TUI |
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