thallett / vim-signify

Show a VCS diff using Vim's sign column.

vim-signify

by Marco Hinz

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_mhinz_
IRC: mhi^ (Freenode)

If you use any of my plugins, please star them on github. It's a great way of getting feedback and gives me the kick to put more time into their development. If you encounter any bugs or have feature requests, just open an issue report on Github.

Intro

Signify (or just Sy) is a quite unobtrusive plugin. It uses signs to indicate added, modified and removed lines based on data of an underlying version control system.

It's fast, easy to use and well documented.

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Features:

• supports git, mercurial, darcs, bazaar, subversion, cvs, rcs, fossil, accurev, perforce
• quick jumping between blocks of changed lines
• apart from signs there is also optional line highlighting
• fully configurable through global variables (options and mappings)
• optional preserving of signs from other plugins
• you can toggle the plugin per buffer
• skip certain filetypes and filenames
• good documentation
• depending on your usual workflow you can disable it per default and enable on demand later
• quick developer response! :-)

What about vim-gitgutter?

Sy provides a superset of gitgutter.

So here is the short answer: The main difference is Sy its support for version control systems other than git. Moreover, two of its design goals are speed and ease to use.

Installation & Documentation

If you have no preferred installation method, I suggest using tpope's pathogen. Afterwards installing vim-signify is as easy as pie:

$ git clone https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify ~/.vim/bundle/vim-signify

It works without any configuration, but you might want to look into the documentation for further customization:

:Helptags  " rebuilding tags files
:h signify

License

MIT license. Copyright (c) 2013 Marco Hinz.