Neovim for Beginners — Source Code Control

Explore plugins for source code control and other interesting plugins.

Neovim for Beginners — Source Code Control

There are dozens of plugins available for version control using Git. In this article, let’s explore those plugins, and other interesting plugins related to Git.

This article is part of the Neovim for Beginners series.

The Neovim configuration files can be found in this repository.

Version Control

fugitive.vim

fugitive.vim is one of the widely used Vim/Neovim plugins for Git.

This plugin allows us to call any arbitrary Git command. If we know how to use Git at the command line, we know how to use :Git. It's vaguely akin to :!git but with numerous improvements.

fugitive.vim

• vim-merginal is a fugitive.nvim extension to provide an interactive TUI for dealing with Git branches.
• Flog is a lightweight and powerful git branch viewer that integrates with fugitive.