Using Git from Vim

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created February 3, 2009 · complexity basic · author Alecclews · version 7.0

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Git is a distributed version control system.

To use git from Vim, two packages are available:

• git-vim (included with Vim 7.1 and later). Provides ftplugin and syntax files for editing various git files (e.g. commit messages).
• VCScommand plugin that needs to be installed separately. This provides commands to interact with git. Help text is provided.

Git supports using vim diff to resolve merge conflicts

 git mergetool -t vimdiff

To make it the default merge tool across all your repos

 git config --global merge.tool vimdiff

See Also

Additional tips on Vim and Git by Amjith Ramanujam