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I use it all the time for staging changes and commits in nvim!", "context": "", "use_case": "Git staging and commits in Neovim", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Difi \u2013 Git diff TUI with NVIM support built with Go and Bubbletea"}, {"id": 749967552, "item_id": 46872972, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872972", "by": "xyzzy_plugh", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "worth checking out tpope's fugitive", "excerpt": "For vim heads also worth checking out tpope's fugitive: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive Very useful for inspecting and staging changes, making commits, etc. I find you can pretty much do anything with it, and it's much faster than anything else, but it does have a slight learning curve. The documentation is very good!", "context": "", "use_case": "Git from Vim", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Difi \u2013 Git diff TUI with NVIM support built with Go and Bubbletea"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["git in vim", "git staging and commits in neovim", "git from vim"], "compared": [{"slug": "github", "name": "GitHub", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169518", "title": "Show HN: Deff \u2013 side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46870917", "title": "Show HN: Difi \u2013 Git diff TUI with NVIM support built with Go and Bubbletea", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323105", "title": "Rebasing in Magit", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 757386144, "item_id": 47336634, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336634", "by": "tambourine_man", "date": "2026-03-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Yes, I use fugitive everyday and it\u2019s a very clever plugin. But when I see magit I know what I\u2019m missing.", "context": "", "use_case": "Git in Vim", "switched_from": "", "story": "Rebasing in Magit"}, {"id": 755052001, "item_id": 47190750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190750", "by": "jbaber", "date": "2026-02-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I tried to clean it up and put it [on sourcehut] and [on github]. [on sourcehut]: https://git.sr.ht/~jbaber/shadiff [on github]: https://github.com/jbaber/shadiff", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Deff \u2013 side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal"}, {"id": 754867441, "item_id": 47179215, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179215", "by": "jbaber", "date": "2026-02-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It depends one [tpope's vim-fugitive]", "excerpt": "I wrote a script that takes two git commits and opens all changed files in vimdiff tabs side by side. I find lots of things too hard to see in github gui. It depends one [tpope's vim-fugitive]. [tpope's vim-fugitive]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive I'll paste it next time I'm on that machine.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Deff \u2013 side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal"}, {"id": 749970816, "item_id": 46873176, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873176", "by": "oug-t", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Yes, fugitive is awesome!", "excerpt": "Yes, fugitive is awesome! I use it all the time for staging changes and commits in nvim!", "context": "", "use_case": "Git staging and commits in Neovim", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Difi \u2013 Git diff TUI with NVIM support built with Go and Bubbletea"}, {"id": 749967552, "item_id": 46872972, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872972", "by": "xyzzy_plugh", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "worth checking out tpope's fugitive", "excerpt": "For vim heads also worth checking out tpope's fugitive: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive Very useful for inspecting and staging changes, making commits, etc. I find you can pretty much do anything with it, and it's much faster than anything else, but it does have a slight learning curve. The documentation is very good!", "context": "", "use_case": "Git from Vim", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Difi \u2013 Git diff TUI with NVIM support built with Go and Bubbletea"}]}