An interesting feature in mercurial is the ability to view the changes that will be committed in a vim split (see DiffsInCommitMessageInVIM).
Any hint on how to do so with git ?
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An interesting feature in mercurial is the ability to view the changes that will be committed in a vim split (see DiffsInCommitMessageInVIM).
Any hint on how to do so with git ?
Assuming you’ve got syntax enabled, Vim detects git commit messages as a filetype. This should be obvious from highlighting. The much less obvious part is that it also has a filetype plugin for git commits (and other git things). Make sure you have those enabled (
filetype plugin on), and then there will be a helpful command defined:DiffGitCached. Just run that, and it’ll toss a diff into a preview window.A comment next to the definition of that command in the plugin:
The filetype plugins are stored in /vimXX/ftplugin/git*.vim, e.g.
/usr/share/vim/vim70/ftplugin/gitcommit.vim, if you’re curious to have a look!