What is the best alternative to vim-fugitive?

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tig

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Allows you to stay in the terminal

If you prefer to do most of your development inside the terminal, changing windows to move to a GUI git client can be annoying. Since tig runs inside the terminal, that's avoided. See More

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Steeper barrier to entry as compared to a GUI solution

Since you have to get used to working in the terminal (if you are not already used to doing that) and learn the commands, it has a steeper learning curve than GUI clients which are usually more intuitive and easier to grasp. See More

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Fast

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Vim-like bindings

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Available in Homebrew

Can easily be installed with homebrew simply by running brew install tig See More

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Works on any platform

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Technology:C

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score 134 · Answer 2

Magit

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Useful only for people who use Emacs

Magit is only useful if your text editor of choice is Emacs. It wouldn't really make any sense to open up emacs just to run Magit if you use another editor. See More

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Uninterrupted workflow for common tasks

Simple tasks, such as commits, can quickly be made without leaving the editor. See More

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Diffs are easy

Since it's integrated with Emacs, diffs are very easy to fix. You can jump right to any file you want to fix as soon as it comes up in the logs or in the status view. See More

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Easy to remember mnemonics

You can easily learn the mnemonics for the most common tasks and use them to your advantage to speed up your workflow. See More

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Better visualization and interactive workflow

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Stage hunks or even just parts of a hunk using a single key press

In Magit staging a hunk or even just part of a hunk is very easy. Magit also implements several other "apply variants" in addition to staging and unstaging. For example: you can also discard or reverse a change, or apply it to the working tree. See More

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Blame information can be viewed inline with the file

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Multiple buffers are used to show contextual information

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Powerful rebasing

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Available in Homebrew

brew install magit See More

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Platforms:Any supported by Emacs (Linux, Windows,macOS,*BSD...)

License:GPLv3

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