Add a "magit like" commit mode: all git repository diffs in one buffer, with easy stage mapping

[jreybert]

Hi,

I don't know if such functionality introduction is possible in fugitive, or if it should be another vim plugin.

I often see colleagues use magit, and I understood recently what I like so much in magit.

It is simple: all diffs of the git repository appears in one buffer, with smart collapse rules. User can go through this buffer, stage some parts and commit at some moments.

It differs a lot of current stage/commit scheme of fugitive. I like the current scheme, but sometimes, when I have bunch of independent commits in multiple files, series of :Gstatus, D, ^Wj, [ do,]c ]*, ^Wk, C, blah, :wq can be boring, and I sometime feel git gui ( :'( ) more efficient for that.

I am not asking someone to implement such stuff. However, I am just wondering: is there already something like that for vim (with git-gutter, I still need to navigate through unstaged files)? if not, is it best to develop into fugitive, or in a fresh new plugin?

Anyway, fugitive is still an awesome plugin!

Jérôme

[glittershark]

👍 for the :Gs<CR>D<C-w>k-j rinse repeat workflow being tedious.

[rgrinberg]

There's also a feature request to allow :Gwrite on regions. That along with something like gitgutter definitely makes it a lot easier to fire off many commits fast and I think it's a lot less involved than the feature above.

[glittershark]

<range>:Gw is an awesome idea.

[juanibiapina]

I feel like I just want to press D and get the diff of all cached files, so I know what is going on the next commit. That would be like git status --cached, except inside vim. This is the part where Magit is better, although showing the whole diff all the time is just too much clutter.

[tpope]

Using :Gstatus to walk through diffs does sound unimaginably tedious. I mostly use :Git add -p. An inline diff with good folding and keybindings to stage hunks sounds vastly superior, and I'd totally be willing to completely toss out the old :Gstatus in favor of something like that. This is a pretty big task though, and I'm not even sure where to begin.

See #269 for a ranged :Gwrite.

[jreybert]

An inline diff with good folding and keybindings to stage hunks sounds vastly superior, and I'd totally be willing to completely toss out the old :Gstatus in favor of something like that.

It actually exists, and it is called vimagit

I started it few months (or weeks?) after writing this issue. Give it a try, for the moment it does mainly that, but it does pretty well.

fugitive still stays under my fingers for all the rest: Gblame, Gdiff...

[tpope]

Okay, so step 1 is giving that a try...

[tpope]

Plenty of fine tuning left to do but the core functionality is complete.