How can I commit files currently displayed in Vim with fugitive?

Question

I am editing files opened split into three windows. I want to commit those into the repository. Is there any commands to do that?

score 60 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 09 '22 at 09:31

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There are a few ways to accomplish this task. I will outline the most interactive method which uses :Git.

For more help with :Git see :h :Git or :G when in the :Git buffer.

Can use :Gwrite or :Gw and :windo to skip the :Git window to make this a bit faster.

:windo Gw
:Git commit

You can also skip the whole commit window by using the -m flag. e.g. :Git commit -m "A short message"

To learn more see:

:h fugitive
:h :Git
:h :Gw
:h :Git commit
:h :windo
:h :x

edited Mar 09 '22 at 09:31

Joannes

answered Dec 07 '14 at 09:12

Peter Rincker

Very helpful. The one complaint I have is that after doing `:x` to save the commit message, the status window closes too. But I often have both the status window open and the index and working copy diffed. I'm adding changes piecemeal using `diffget` (the improved version of the `--patch` workflow described in the 2nd vimcast). So what I really want is to be able to commit (and I do want to use the full window to compose my possibly multi-line message), but I don't want the status window to close after saving. Is this possible? – Jonah Apr 23 '18 at 02:33
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You may wan to do verbose commit `cvc` in the `:Gstatus` window or `:Gcommit --verbose`. It will open a commit message in a new tab with more your commit details – Peter Rincker Apr 23 '18 at 14:13

romainl · Answer 2 · 2014-12-07T10:39:06.740

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Without fugitive:

:windo !git add %
:!git commit -m "My message goes here"

The last command could be replaced with:

:!git commit --interactive

edited Dec 07 '14 at 10:39

answered Dec 07 '14 at 10:33

romainl

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