Fugitive.vim

fugitive.vim, also called vim-fugitive or just fugitive, is a Git wrapper written as a plugin for the Vim text editor. It was originally developed by Tim Pope, who still maintains the plugin.

Name
As with other plugins by Tim Pope, the name of the plugin obliquely refers to its functionality. "fugitive.vim" contains the substring "git", as it is a Git wrapper. Pope later wrote rhubarb.vim, whose name contains the substring "hub", as it provides the  command to work with GitHub.

"fugitive.vim" is the plugin's filename, while "vim-fugitive" is used for the GitHub repository name as well as for the package name in several Linux distributions.

History
The initial commit to the Git repository of the project was made on October 10, 2009.

The initial version (version 1.0) was released on February 15, 2010.

Starting in March 2014 fugitive.vim was included in Debian's unstable branch.

Features
The plugin provides standard Git commands from inside Vim, such as  for.

It also allows an interactive vertical split for.

Reception
fugitive.vim is one of around 30 Vim plugins to have its own package in the Ubuntu package repository. It is also one of 16 Vim plugins in the official Fedora package repository. The plugin is also available from the Arch Linux packages repository.

The plugin is part of Vim distributions including spf13 and Janus.

Drew Neil of Vimcasts covered fugitive.vim favorably in a multi-part series.

The scripts page for fugitive.vim on the Vim website shows that the plugin has been downloaded almost 13,000 times. , the plugin's repository on GitHub has nearly 8,000 stars, and is the eighth most popular Vim script GitHub repository by number of stars.