This plug-in allows you to jump to useful places within a Git or Mercurial repository: diff hunks, merge conflicts, and "grep" results.
The actual work is done by the included vcs-jump
script, which is a Ruby port of the "git-jump" (shell) script from official Git repo, adapted to work transparently with either Git or Mercurial:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/contrib/git-jump
vcs-jump
script uses a "shebang" line of "/usr/bin/env ruby".To install vcs-jump, use your plug-in management system of choice.
vcs-jump consists of a Vim plug-in that provides a :VcsJump
command which invokes a bundled vcs-jump
executable. The executable itself is useful outside of Vim, so you may wish to add the plug-in's bin
directory to your $PATH
; for example, if you installed the plug-in inside ~/.vim/pack/bundle/vcs-jump
, you could add the following to your shell's startup file:
export PATH=$PATH:~/.vim/pack/bundle/vcs-jump/bin
See vcs-jump-usage
for a description of usage from the command-line.
vcs-jump can be used from inside or outside of Vim. Inside Vim, run :VcsJump
to populate the quickfix
list with "interesting" locations (diff hunks, merge conflicts, or grep results).
Outside of Vim, provided you have set up your $PATH
as described in vcs-jump-installation
, you can run the bundled vcs-jump
executable in any of the following ways to open Vim and immediately populate the quickfix
list:
vcs-jump diff # find hunks with diffs relative to current HEAD
vcs-jump diff HEAD~10 # find hunks with diffs relative to specified commit
vcs-jump grep stuff # find grep results for "stuff"
vcs-jump merge # find merge conflicts
You can also add vcs-jump
as a Git subcommand that can be invoked as git jump
:
git jump diff # find hunks with diffs relative to current HEAD
git jump diff HEAD~10 # find hunks with diffs relative to specified commit
git jump grep stuff # find grep results for "stuff"
git jump merge # find merge conflicts
To do this, use one of the following three methods.
Firstly, you can add a git-jump
file to your $PATH
with these contents, and then mark it as executable with chmod +x
:
#!/bin/sh
vcs-jump "$@"
Secondly, you can add a symbolic link to the vcs-jump executable anywhere in your path:
cd ~/bin
ln -s path/to/vcs-jump git-jump
Thirdly, you can create a Git alias:
git config --global alias.jump '!f() { vcs-jump "$@"; }; f'
By default, vcs-jump will print usage information if called without any arguments. A useful enhancement to the above alias is to teach git jump
to pick a reasonable default action instead. The following runs git jump merge
if there are conflicts, and git jump diff
if there are modifications, otherwise falling back to the standard behavior:
git config --global alias.jump '!f() {
if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
if [ -n "$(git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U)" ]; then
vcs-jump merge;
elif ! git diff --quiet; then
vcs-jump diff;
else
vcs-jump;
fi;
else
vcs-jump "$@";
fi;
}; f'
:VcsJump
This command invokes the bundled vcs-jump
script to get the list of "interesting" locations (diff hunks, merge conflicts, or grep results) in the repo, and put them in the quickfix
list.
Filename completion is available in the context of this command.
Subcommands are:
diff
invocation. This means that in the absence of any arguments, a diff against the current "HEAD" will be performed, but you can change that by passing options (eg. --cached
) or specifying a target revision to compare against.grep
command.When called with a trailing :command-bang
(eg. :VcsJump!
) the current value of the g:VcsJumpMode
setting is inverted for the duration of that invocation.
<Plug>(VcsJump)
This mapping invokes the bundled vcs-jump
script, defaulting to "diff" mode.
By default, <Leader>d
will invoke this mapping unless:
{lhs}
already exists; or:<Plug>(VcsJump)
has already been defined in your .vimrc
.You can create a different mapping like this:
" Use <Leader>g instead of <Leader>d
nmap <Leader>g <Plug>(VcsJump)
g:VcsJumpMode
(string, default: "cwd")Controls whether vcs-jump should operate relative to Vim's current working directory (when g:VcsJumpMode
is "cwd", the default) or to the current buffer (when g:VcsJumpMode
is "buffer").
To override the default, add this to your .vimrc
:
let g:VcsJumpMode="buffer"
Note that you can temporarily invert the sense of this setting by running :VcsJump
with a trailing :command-bang
(eg. :VcsJump!
).
g:VcsJumpLoaded
(any, default: none)To prevent vcs-jump from being loaded, set g:VcsJumpLoaded
to any value in your " .vimrc
. For example:
let g:VcsJumpLoaded=1
Source code:
https://github.com/wincent/vcs-jump
Official releases are listed at:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=5790
Copyright 2014-present Greg Hurrell. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Patches can be sent via mail to greg@hurrell.net, or as GitHub pull requests at: https://github.com/wincent/vcs-jump/pulls
At the moment the release process is manual:
vcs-jump-history
section of the documentationgit status
git tag -s -m "$VERSION release" $VERSION
git push origin main --follow-tags
git push github main --follow-tags
git archive -o vcs-jump-$VERSION.zip HEAD -- .
vcs-jump is written and maintained by Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net>.
Other contributors that have submitted patches include (in alphabetical order):
This list produced with:
:read !git shortlog -s HEAD | grep -v 'Greg Hurrell' | cut -f 2-3 | sed -e 's/^/- /'
diff.mnemonicPrefix=no
and diff.noprefix=no
to Git to ensure diff
output has the necessary prefixes for parsing (patches from Aaron Schrab: https://github.com/wincent/vcs-jump/pull/7; and Adam P. Regasz-Rethy: https://github.com/wincent/vcs-jump/pull/9).quickfix
listing.git diff
with --no-color
to prevent a git config color.ui
setting of "always" from breaking diff mode (https://github.com/wincent/vcs-jump/issues/1)g:VcsJumpMode
and teach :VcsJump
to accept a :command-bang
suffix that can be used to make vcs-jump operate relative to the current buffer instead of the current working directory (patch from Pascal Lalancette, https://github.com/wincent/vcs-jump/pull/5).