Git

Plugins of the Year

I’m peering out at you through a haze of Christmas dinner and fairy lights, finding a welcome distraction from assembling toys and cooking. I’ve written about many plugins over the last year, but I use two regularly, so I’d like to offer these morsels up as my plugins of the year.

Avoiding Modelines with scripts.vim

I don’t like .gitignore files very much. For general things I want Git to ignore, like .DS_Store and *.sw?, I prefer to use ~/.gitignore_global. Similarly, rather than using modelines to improve filetype detection I use .vim/scripts.vim.

Presentations with Vim and git-slides

Sometimes when you’re creating a technical talk, using PowerPoint or Keynote feels extremely awkward. Adding syntax highlighted code samples requires an extra step, and dipping into live coding isn’t elegant.

Global Git Ignore

For years I dumped this into my .gitignore files: *.sw?. Then I realised that some people don't use Vim, and therefore probably don't want to see my editor-specific .gitignore entries. Different editors handle swap and recovery files different ways, so it seems redundant to force these settings…

Git Rebase and Vim

When collaborating with Git, I find the git fetch, git rebase pattern suits me. I like the cleaner history. Sometimes I'll switch to cherry-pick for applying specific changes for safe deployments.

Script Roundup: GitHub Dashboard, presenting.vim

GitHub Dashboard