created by

Geoff Buchan

script type

utility

description

This script will show a git diff in vimdiff format. -g will use gvimdiff instead of vimdiff. It creates a temporary file based on the diff output of git diff, and then runs vimdiff (or gvimdiff) against that. On completion it should delete the temporary files.

install details

The file itself is a bash script, so just make it executable on a Unix-like system.

Click on the package to download.

package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
gitvimdiff	1.8	2022-05-26	7.0	Geoff Buchan	Replace tempfile with mktemp to generate temporary file names. tempfile is deprecated and no longer distributed with the current Fedora, whereas mktemp exists both there and the older Debian installs I use.
gitvimdiff	1.7	2014-08-30	7.0	Geoff Buchan	Use sed instead of cut to strip a filename out of a line of git status output. Cut was blindly removing 15 columns before, but the git status format changed slightly. sed now simply requires that the line start with '\\tmodified:'.
gitvimdiff	1.6	2013-04-07	7.0	Geoff Buchan	Fix switch arguments to tempfile, and change temporary file name to use full filename, not just the last token of it. Thanks to Stefan Heinemann for pointing out the change to tempfile!
gitvimdiff	1.5	2009-08-27	7.0	Geoff Buchan	Bug fix: remove temporary file with file suffix on exit
gitvimdiff	1.3	2009-08-26	7.0	Geoff Buchan	Add code to put orignal file suffix on patched file. This fixes syntax highlighting for the file. Thanks to Stefan Heinemann for the patch!
gitvimdiff	1.2	2007-08-11	7.0	Geoff Buchan	Initial upload

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