How do I get git to display the changes in vim as hg does with the hgeditor script?

Question

An interesting feature in mercurial is the ability to view the changes that will be committed in a vim split (see DiffsInCommitMessageInVIM).

Any hint on how to do so wi

Answer 1

I use Pierre Habouzit's git.vim from www.vim.org. Drop it into ~/.vim/ftplugin and you should be all set (assuming the usual filetype plugin indent on in your ~/.vimrc).