Mini Git

Git integration

See more details in Features and Documentation.

[!NOTE] This was previously hosted at a personal echasnovski GitHub account. It was transferred to a dedicated organization to improve long term project stability. See more details here.

⦿ This is a part of mini.nvim library. Please use this link if you want to mention this module.

⦿ All contributions (issues, pull requests, discussions, etc.) are done inside of 'mini.nvim'.

⦿ See whole library documentation to learn about general design principles, disable/configuration recipes, and more.

⦿ See MiniMax for a full config example that uses this module.

If you want to help this project grow but don't know where to start, check out contributing guides of 'mini.nvim' or leave a Github star for 'mini.nvim' project and/or any its standalone Git repositories.

Demo

https://github.com/nvim-mini/mini.nvim/assets/24854248/3c2b34cd-f04f-4e30-9ca4-1ff51e2d65a2

Note: This demo uses custom vim.notify() from mini.notify and diff line number highlighting from mini.diff.

Features

• Automated tracking of Git related data: root path, status, HEAD, etc. Exposes buffer-local variables for convenient use in statusline.

• :Git command for executing any git call inside file's repository root with deeper current instance integration (show output as notification/buffer, use to edit commit messages, etc.).

• Helper functions to inspect Git history:

  • MiniGit.show_range_history() shows how certain line range evolved.
  • MiniGit.show_diff_source() shows file state as it was at diff entry.
  • MiniGit.show_at_cursor() shows Git related data depending on context.

What it doesn't do:

• Replace fully featured Git client. Rule of thumb: if feature does not rely on a state of current Neovim (opened buffers, etc.), it is out of scope. For more functionality, use either 'mini.diff' or fully featured Git client.

For more information see these parts of help:

• :h :Git
• :h MiniGit-examples
• :h MiniGit.enable()
• :h MiniGit.get_buf_data()

Installation

This plugin can be installed as part of 'mini.nvim' library (recommended) or as a standalone Git repository.

There are two branches to install from:

• main (default, recommended) will have latest development version of plugin. All changes since last stable release should be perceived as being in beta testing phase (meaning they already passed alpha-testing and are moderately settled).
• stable will be updated only upon releases with code tested during public beta-testing phase in main branch.

Here are code snippets for some common installation methods (use only one):

• 'mini.nvim' library:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation
  Stable	Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation

• Standalone plugin:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	add('nvim-mini/mini-git')
  Stable	add({ source = 'nvim-mini/mini-git', checkout = 'stable' })

• 'mini.nvim' library:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	{ 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim', version = false },
  Stable	{ 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim', version = '*' },

• Standalone plugin:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	{ 'nvim-mini/mini-git', version = false },
  Stable	{ 'nvim-mini/mini-git', version = '*' },

• 'mini.nvim' library:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	Plug 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim'
  Stable	Plug 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim', { 'branch': 'stable' }

• Standalone plugin:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	Plug 'nvim-mini/mini-git'
  Stable	Plug 'nvim-mini/mini-git', { 'branch': 'stable' }

Important: don't forget to call require('mini.git').setup() to enable its functionality.

Note: if you are on Windows, there might be problems with too long file paths (like error: unable to create file <some file name>: Filename too long). Try doing one of the following:

• Enable corresponding git global config value: git config --system core.longpaths true. Then try to reinstall.
• Install plugin in other place with shorter path.

Default config

-- No need to copy this inside `setup()`. Will be used automatically.
{
  -- General CLI execution
  job = {
    -- Path to Git executable
    git_executable = 'git',

    -- Timeout (in ms) for each job before force quit
    timeout = 30000,
  },

  -- Options for `:Git` command
  command = {
    -- Default split direction
    split = 'auto',
  },
}

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