# Fugitive.vim

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**fugitive.vim**, also called **vim-fugitive** or just **fugitive**, is a [Git](/source/Git) [wrapper](/source/Wrapper_function) written as a [plugin](/source/Plug-in_(computing)) for the [Vim](/source/Vim_(text_editor)) text editor. It was originally developed by Tim Pope, who still [when?] maintains the plugin.[2][3][4][5]

## Name

As with other plugins by Tim Pope, the name of the plugin obliquely refers to its functionality. "fugitive.vim" contains the [substring](/source/Substring) "git", as it is a [Git](/source/Git) wrapper. Pope later wrote rhubarb.vim, whose name contains the substring "hub", as it provides the :Gbrowse command to work with [GitHub](/source/GitHub).[6] In a talk, Pope explained, "It's got the word 'git' in it because it works with Git. It was either that or 'agitate' and I think that might have been a better choice."[7]

"fugitive.vim" is the plugin's [filename](/source/Filename), while "vim-fugitive" is used for the [GitHub](/source/GitHub) repository name as well as for the package name in several [Linux distributions](/source/Linux_distribution).

## History

The initial commit to the Git repository of the project was made on October 10, 2009.[8]

The initial version (version 1.0) was released on February 15, 2010.

Starting in March 2014 fugitive.vim was included in [Debian](/source/Debian)'s unstable branch.[9]

## Features

The plugin provides standard Git commands from inside Vim, such as :Gstatus for git status.[10]

It also allows an interactive vertical split for git blame.[11]

## Reception

fugitive.vim is one of around 30 Vim plugins to have its own package in the [Ubuntu](/source/Ubuntu_(operating_system)) package repository.[12] It is also one of 16 Vim plugins in the official [Fedora](/source/Fedora_(operating_system)) package repository.[13] The plugin is also available from the [Arch Linux](/source/Arch_Linux) packages repository.[14]

The plugin is part of Vim distributions including spf13[15] and Janus.[16]

Drew Neil of Vimcasts covered fugitive.vim favorably in a multi-part series.[17]

The scripts page for fugitive.vim on the Vim website shows that the plugin has been downloaded almost 13,000 times.[1] As of February 2017, the plugin's repository on [GitHub](/source/GitHub) has nearly 8,000 stars,[18] and is the eighth most popular [Vim script](/source/Vim_script) GitHub repository by number of stars.[19]

## See also

- [Magit](/source/Magit), a Git wrapper for GNU Emacs

## References

1. ["fugitive.vim : A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal"](http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2975). Retrieved February 8, 2017.

1. Neil, Drew (2015). *Practical Vim*. 2nd ed. The Pragmatic Programmers. p. 273. ISBN 978-1-68050-127-8.

1. McDonnell, Mark (2014). [*Pro Vim*](https://books.google.com/books?id=_1cnCgAAQBAJ&dq=fugitive.vim&pg=PR27). [Apress](/source/Apress). ISBN 9781484202500.

1. McDonnell, Mark (2014). [*tmux Taster*](https://books.google.com/books?id=jGInCgAAQBAJ&dq=fugitive.vim&pg=PR15). [Apress](/source/Apress). ISBN 9781484207758.

1. ["VIM and Python - a match made in heaven"](https://realpython.com/blog/python/vim-and-python-a-match-made-in-heaven/). Real Python. October 27, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2017.

1. ["rhubarb.vim"](https://github.com/tpope/vim-rhubarb). *[GitHub](/source/GitHub)*. Retrieved February 9, 2016.

1. Tim Pope (May 28, 2014). ["tpope's Vim Config and Plugins"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGmIJyTf8pg&t=1580s). YouTube. Retrieved January 3, 2026.

1. Pope, Tim (October 10, 2009). ["Initial commit"](https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive/commit/1eb949be95b588dc45777814142edce93da6415e). *[GitHub](/source/GitHub)*

1. Boutillier, Cédric (March 4, 2014). ["Debian Project News - March 3rd, 2014 \[LWN.net\]"](https://lwn.net/Articles/589142/). [LWN.net](/source/LWN.net). Retrieved February 9, 2017. 352 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others are: [...] vim-fugitive — Vim plugin to work with Git

1. Ibanez, Luis (May 29, 2011). ["Fugitive – a Git plugin for Vim"](https://blog.kitware.com/fugitive-a-git-plugin-for-vim/). *The Kitware Blog*. Retrieved February 9, 2017.

1. ["'vim-fugitive' tag wiki"](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/vim-fugitive/info). [Stack Overflow](/source/Stack_Overflow). Retrieved February 9, 2017.

1. ["Package Search Results for 'vim-'"](http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&keywords=vim-&searchon=names)

1. ["Fedora Package Database"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170226212640/https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/vim%2A/). Archived from [the original](https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/vim%2A/) on February 26, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2017.

1. ["Arch Linux - vim-fugitive 2.2-1 (any)"](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/vim-fugitive/). January 26, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2017.

1. Francia, Steve. ["spf13-vim - The Ultimate Vim Distribution"](http://vim.spf13.com/). Retrieved February 8, 2017.

1. ["Janus: Vim Distribution"](https://github.com/carlhuda/janus). *[GitHub](/source/GitHub)*. Retrieved February 8, 2017.

1. Neil, Drew (May 18, 2011). ["The Fugitive Series - a retrospective"](http://vimcasts.org/blog/2011/05/the-fugitive-series/). Retrieved February 9, 2017.

1. ["fugitive.vim"](https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive). *[GitHub](/source/GitHub)*. Retrieved February 8, 2017.

1. ["GitHub Search for "stars:>1000", Vim script, sorted by most stars"](https://github.com/search?l=Vim+script&o=desc&q=stars%3A%3E1000&s=stars&type=Repositories&utf8=%E2%9C%93). *[GitHub](/source/GitHub)*. Retrieved February 9, 2017.

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