How do I use vim as 'git show' editor?

Question

all as described in How do I use vim as 'git log' editor? doesn\'t work for git show . I use often

git show HEAD

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Answer 1

Here is a Twitter post to solve that problem.

https://twitter.com/oliviergay/status/179692941063888896

Using git show with vim and syntax highlighting: vimgitshow() { git show "$1" | vim - "+set filetype=${1##*.}"; }

Answer 2

can simply use git show bf9f84042 | vim - in edit mod, or git show bf9f84042 | vim -R - in read only mod, without changing gitconfig

or

git config --global diff.tool vimdiff using vimdiff as diff.tool, and then git difftool bf9f042 232wf2f to diff

Answer 3

You can use the following command:

PAGER='vim -' git -c color.ui=false show

Answer 4

You might also want to use a better diff than just patch syntax highlighting. It allows you to use git show and see the diff for each file in vimdiff. See this answer.

Answer 5

This worked for me:

git config --global pager.show "vim -c '%sm/\\e.\\{-}m//g' -c 'set ft=diff' +1 -"

Crazy vim args found here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17015531/610634