Talk about Vim flog

How to use flog to browse a git repo. Gave this talk at the Vimberlin March 2019 meetup.

Slides of the talk

Video of the talk

Content of the talk

Features

• find and checkout Branches (with autocompletion)
• explore history

Custom mappings

• normally ZZ to close windows
• I prefer pressing q:

augroup flog
  au FileType git map <buffer><silent>q :bw<cr>
  au FileType floggraph map <buffer><silent>q :bw<cr>
augroup END

Configs

• change display format of git messages:

let g:flog_default_date_format = 'format:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

Get all commits concerning a file

:Flog -path=archive.md

Comparison to gitv

• only necessary features
• loads fast
• has API to be able to easy add new features

References:

• https://github.com/rbong/vim-flog
• https://medium.com/@r.l.bongers/announcing-flog-a-new-git-branch-viewer-for-vim-from-the-former-maintainer-of-gitv-e9db68977810

Connect with me

You can find the source under bitbucket. I gave this talk at Vimberlin March 2019 Meetup.