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Vim-signify - my approach of a gutter plugin (github.com)
4 points by mhi 4850 days ago
This is my version of some kind of git-gutter plugin for Vim; vim-signify.

Features:

- supports git, mercurial, bazaar, subversion, cvs - pretty well documented - _everything_ is configurable through variables - quite fast - can be toggled on a per-buffer base - preserving of signs set by other plugins (optional) - additional line highlighting (optional)

I started writing it 3 days ago, but it's working pretty good for me already. I'd like to get some more feedback now. Thanks in advance.

(Feature requests are feedback, too!)

1 comments

Pretty cool, but you could add a brief comparision with vim-gitgutter to the Readme, or explain why you felt the need for a new plugin.
I just added a short explanation to the README:

Yes, I knew about vim-gitgutter before, I even contributed to it. But in the end I just didn't like the codebase and started my own plugin. And because I like programming VimL.

The main difference is probably the support for other DVCS. Moreover, execution speed and high configurability are two of the design goals.

Indeed, I noticed it is faster!

Rest well. :)