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Committing every time you save in Vim

I wonder if there are any non squash-heavy workflows that this goes well with.

" requires vim-python and python-git
function! CommitFile()
python << EOF
import vim, git
curfile = vim.current.buffer.name
if curfile:
    try:
        repo = git.Repo(curfile)
        repo.git.add(curfile)
        repo.git.commit(m='Update')
    except (git.InvalidGitRepositoryError, git.GitCommandError):
        pass
EOF
endfunction
au BufWritePost * call CommitFile()

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Four comments

1. terrible feature but nice poc! :)

   nion

2. I wouldn't say terrible feature necessarily. Bad work-flow idea for normal code development though. If you are going to use it for writing this is might be a different story. Cory Doctorow just had a python based tool created for a writers work-flow called FlashBake, in case you are interested.

   Sam Williams

3. Hi!

   Neat hack. I found out it makes sense to use, for my latex files!

   So this is what I hacked up for editing LaTeX files, with a bit of help from vim gurus from #vim.

   1. Use git's gitattribute *.tex diff=tex to get nice hunk headers
   2. Tweak the script to put in the first hunk header in the commit message, that way the log tells me where I changed something
   3. Use a "dotted filetype" (thanks vim gurus) to enable this. I have an autocommand trigger on FileType *.autocommit, so for the files where I want this I define "set ft=tex.autocommit"

   .vimrc code here:

   http://gist....

   ulrik

4. Thanks!

   This helped me to get my Taglist updated everytime I save the current buffer.

   autocmd BufWritePost * :TlistUpdate

   Dani

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