Starting vim-fugitive from command line

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I really like Fugitive (VIM git wrapper plugin) However I would like to create a script that starts vim and then runs

:Gstatus

immediately. However when I try

vim -c Gstatus

I get an error stating that Gstatus is not an editor command

At that point in your session, the fugitive plugin is probably not loaded or unable to work its magic. Can you do `:GStatus` right after you started Vim without any file? — romainl, Feb 04 '13 at 08:22
It seems fugative doesn't work unless there is a file loaded which is part of a git repository. The current directory satisfies that condition so starting gvim with the current directory as the current file works. See My answer below. — bradgonesurfing, Feb 04 '13 at 08:31

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '20 at 16:03

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vim +Gstatus +only works. I have it aliased to vimg

answered Mar 18 '20 at 16:03

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This is perfect, though `+Gstatus` is now deprecated in favor of `+Git` – chb Aug 19 '21 at 23:55
`+Gstatus` is deprecated. Instead do `vim +Git +only` – Miron Veryanskiy Mar 16 '22 at 00:11

bradgonesurfing · Answer 2 · 2013-02-04T08:52:23.707

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This works

gvim -c 'Gstatus | wincmd j | hide' .

makes the fugative window full size and hide the directory explorer buffer. Also with the directory buffer hidden when you quit the fugative buffer vim closes

edited Feb 04 '13 at 08:52

answered Feb 04 '13 at 08:27

bradgonesurfing

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I prefer using `vim -c Gstatus .` since gives me a window to see diffs (pressing `D` on the cursor line) without closing the status window. – Ricardo Stuven Feb 19 '13 at 11:10
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The `.` directory trick doesn't work when NERDTree plugin is enabled, but `.` can be replaced by any other filename that doesn't exist. – Ricardo Stuven Feb 19 '13 at 11:15
Just YFI for PowerShell/Windows users - `.` did NOT work for me as the file argument to Vim, so as Ricardo suggested, all I did was use `temp` as the file name. (Vim only creates the swap file for `temp`). – Tahir Hassan Oct 06 '17 at 20:39

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 21 '15 at 10:56

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You can do this (assuming you are in the project root dir):

$ vim -c 'view .git/index'

It opens the git index in read-only mode (mimicking the essentials of the :Gstatus command)

answered Feb 21 '15 at 10:56

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You don't have the rich mappings available like with `:Gstatus` but it works for committing. – kba May 26 '16 at 20:24

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 06 '19 at 10:01

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As a slight improvement on bradgonesurfing's answer

vim -c 'Gstatus | wincmd o' .

This works even if you have splitbelow set

answered Feb 06 '19 at 10:01

Lewis R

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 16 '22 at 00:14

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Run vim +Git +only

I got here thanks to @jsm3031's answer, which nudged me in the right direction.

answered Mar 16 '22 at 00:14

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