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 that
mofo. And guess what :Gcommit does!
:Gblame brings up an interactive vertical split with git blame
output. Press enter on a line to reblame the file as it stood in that
commit, or o to open that commit 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. :Gremove 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 GitHub, with optional line
range (try it in visual mode!). If your current repository isn't on
GitHub, git instaweb will be spun up instead.
Add %{fugitive#statusline()} to 'statusline' to get an indicator
with the current branch in (surprise!) your statusline.
Oh, and of course there's :Git for running any arbitrary command.
Like fugitive.vim? Follow the repository on GitHub and vote for it on vim.org.
I installed the plugin and started Vim. 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.
I opened a new tab. 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.
I changed the current working directory. Why do all the commands use the old directory?
Fugitive cares about the current file, not the current working directory. Edit a file from the repository.