Starting vim-fugitive from command line

Question

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

Jacobo

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? – Backache

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. – Jacobo

Answer 1

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

Jeer

This is perfect, though +Gstatus is now deprecated in favor of +Git – Discomfiture

+Gstatus is deprecated. Instead do vim +Git +only – Annice

Answer 2

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

Jacobo

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. – Affectionate

The . directory trick doesn't work when NERDTree plugin is enabled, but . can be replaced by any other filename that doesn't exist. – Affectionate

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). – Neuro

Answer 3

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)

Hobbyhorse

You don't have the rich mappings available like with :Gstatus but it works for committing. – Atlantis

Answer 4

As a slight improvement on bradgonesurfing's answer

vim -c 'Gstatus | wincmd o' .

This works even if you have splitbelow set

Ludwig

Answer 5

Run vim +Git +only

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

Annice