UmWerker 🕊 ☮️ 🤘

I just tried my hand at #git plugins for #neovim. Not so successful. #vgit constantly annoyed me with an info line right next to the cursor when the file was last changed. And no, I don't want to have to search to get rid of such nonsensical crap. Next up #gitsigns. Showed changes immediately, very nice, but I just didn't understand how to use the "status", "add" and "commit" commands. So I immediately removed it again.

There's probably still #fugitive, but I've lost interest now. I'll just stick to the command line.

Feb 27, 2024 at 12:11pmWeb
Show threadOlicalFeb 27, 2024
@UmWerker Sorry if you know of this and have already discounted it, but I find just ignoring putting Git in Neovim and using Lazy Git is the best UX for me. I have Lazy Git on a keybind so it pops up in a floating Neovim window too. I do have a git signs plugin that's fairly minimal but I forget which one, anything more complex than that I do in LG. Worth trying it if you haven't, please ignore if you have or this doesn't help :)
Show threadUmWerker 🕊 ☮️ 🤘Feb 27, 2024
@Olical
Thanks for your thoughts, but everything with "Lazy" is not for me. Using the command line for #git is not so bad now. I was just hoping to do it directly in the open #neovim, could be a relief. Maybe the plugins are also very capable, but the handling is too cumbersome for me and the entry hurdle too high. Directly in the terminal is fine for me.
Show threadRingtail RingoFeb 27, 2024
@Olical @UmWerker I can only double this recommendation since it is exactly how I do it: this vim and not emacs, no need to re-invent everything if there are already good cli clients. I have a shortcut to start LazyGit in the overlay, but I mostly bg neovim for a while or start lg a new tab. For simple things git commands are sufficient.
Show threadUmWerker 🕊 ☮️ 🤘Feb 27, 2024
@ringtailringo @Olical
Yes, that's it. I only use the three most basic commands.
Show threadBrandonFeb 27, 2024

@UmWerker I’m gonna second the lazygit rec even though you’ve already expressed disdain for it because I really enjoy its UX and it implements a one-to-one match for the git cli options that I use frequently for things like bare repositories.

  • To be clear it has no relation to lazy.nvim. It’s lazy in the sense that “I don’t want to type git commands I just want to use vim bindings to do everything”

There’s also gitui along the same lines, but it has less features. Maybe that’s what you’d prefer.

GitHub - extrawurst/gitui: Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀 - extrawurst/gitui

GitHub
Show threadUmWerker 🕊 ☮️ 🤘Feb 27, 2024
@be_far
Oh, indeed gitui looks really nice. Thank you for this tip 👍
Show threadpetrischFeb 27, 2024
@UmWerker I use fugitive for simple git operations. Just do a capital G and the rest is the same.
I rarely have complex stuff, so cant talk about lazygit and such.