[ANN]: vimagit, a new way to use git within vim

Believe it or not, but emacs has an excellent plugin ;) . This is an interface to git, a plugin named Magit[1]. Its creator designed a unique and really efficient workflow with git. IMO, Magit is more than just a plugin to use git within an editor, this is a new way to use git.

I felt very frustrated during two years, stuck with git gui (or git add -p ?!), although my officemate staged like crazy with Magit. Actually, before he showed me Magit, I was quite happy with what I had. But once I discovered Magit, that was too late. Then, I had two choices, start using emacs, or develop a Magit-like interface for vim. I chose the latter!

> But hey, Tim Pope himself created fugitive, what's wrong with you?

I do not blame fugitive quality, this is a very good plugin. But I don't like much what fugitive offers for staging. As long as your changes belong to one file,
:Gstatus<CR>do]cdo]c]cdo:w^WkC
does the job. But if you have changes among multiple files, visualize them globally and stage some of them is a pain to me with fugitive.

Anyway, features like Gdiff or Gblame will stay key features in my workflow. I believe that fugitive, vim-gitgutter and vimagit are complementary.

For all these reasons, I started to develop vimagit[2]. It is 100% inspired^Wcopied from Magit, from the display to the key bindings, trying to reproduce the same workflow. In a first time, I will only focus on stage part. In that sense, vimagit has reached an important step with version 1.4. IMO, it now embeds the minimal feature requirements to be a usable git staging tool, and not just a toy. I use it for my professional projects.

You can see a complete description on github[2], and a demo on asciinema[3].

Looking forward for feedback!

Jérôme

[1]: https://github.com/magit/magit
[2]: https://github.com/jreybert/vimagit
[3]: https://asciinema.org/a/28761

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