Git diff with vimdiff
Wednesday, 17 August 2022git difftool
You could just do:
git difftool --tool=vimdiff --no-prompt
This will open git diff in vim.
To tell git to always use vimdiff:
git-config --global diff.tool vimdiffgit-config --global merge.tool vimdiff
Omit --global to set these for the repo in the working directory.
Once these settings are set, you can do git difftool to launch it.
Another useful config is difftool.prompt - this will stop Vim prompting about
launching vimdiff:
git-config --global difftool.prompt false
Basic vimdiff
]c    - next difference 
[c    - previous difference 
do    - diff obtain 
dp    - diff put 
zo    - open folded text 
zc    - close folded text 
:diffupdate - re-scan the files for differences \
IMPORTANT - READ-ONLY
By default, vimdiff opens both file in READONLY mode. To be able to make changes to the file, do :set noro in vim, which will remove READONLY.