How do I get git to display the changes in vim as hg does with the hgeditor script?

Question

An interesting feature in mercurial is the ability to view the changes that will be committed in a vim split (see DiffsInCommitMessageInVIM).

Any hint on how to do so wi

Answer 1

If you're using git 2.9 and above, you can get this behaviour by running git config --global commit.verbose true.

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