Tig – Text-mode interface for Git

Tig is just faster, staging and unstaging take a fraction of a second.

I've used Tig daily for years (about ten) and basically use it for for quickly browsing the log and changing what's staged - probably less than 5% of its features.

Everything else I do via the command line with ZSH's excellent git completion.

Not only is the name just three letters long, it's git backwards, and the acronym text-mode interface for git. Simply perfect.

I'd like to just say that Tig has been deeply integrated into my terminal git workflow for so many years, it's one of the first things I install on any new system. I've found that practically all GUIs for git only serve to be a shell for the same commands you'd be quicker typing out in the first place, and their only unique value is a visual representation your branching and the ability to quickly stage/unstage chunks of code within a file. Tig brings these two tasks beautifully into any command line workflow, loading instantly and having good keyboard shortcuts <3

There is also Vimagit, which is inspired by Magit: https://github.com/jreybert/vimagit

As a longtime vim user it feels like if I actually wanted a TUI veneer over the git CLI I'm already quite familiar with, I'd prefer it be done within vim as an extension/plugin or something.

Having some vim-like keybindings in non-vim tools is nice, but it's always a far cry from being vim. And personally I find it incredibly annoying when I'm in something vim-like enough to establish "I'm in vim" expectations and not meet them once I start trying to use the thing like vim without restraint. I'm then put into this constant second guessing mode of "if this really were vim I'd do so and so, but should I just try it? maybe it'll do something really unexpected, time to RTFM? sigh." which is really unproductive and psychologically awful.

Especially when we're talking about dev tools like git integration, where the mental state is already going to be steeped well into text editor land, all the familiar vimisms are going to be hot in the habitual cache.

Does anyone know of anything tig-like that's implemented as a vim plugin one interacts with through regular vim windows? I wouldn't mind having an interactive list interface for tagging files to include in a `git commit -p` for instance, without leaving the editor.