GitMinutes #08: Drew Neil on Vim and Workflow

In this episode we talk to Drew Neil. He is the man behind Vimcasts, and the book Practical Vim. A couple of years back he did a whole bunch of screen-casts on how to use Git from inside of Vim, and this is what made me want to get him on the show.

Link to mp3

Links:

• Vimcasts
• Drew on Twitter, GitHub
• Drew’s Vim book
• Tim Pope's Fugitive
• The Fugitive Series - a retrospective
• #1 Fugitive.vim - a complement to command line git
• #2 Fugitive.vim - working with the git index
• #3 Fugitive.vim - resolving merge conflicts with vimdiff
• #4 Fugitive.vim - browsing the git object database
• #5 Fugitive.vim - exploring the history of a git repository

An example of using GitHub’s compare feature to tell the story of a codebase: 

Presidents (Follow the ‘view diff’ links in the README file to see the codebase evolve)

Listen to the episode on YouTube