Fugitive Delta

• vim-fugitive integration with delta.

Requirement

• neovim
• vim-fugitive
• delta or diff-highlight

Installation

• Get delta installation file from its release page.

  • Alternatively, you can use diff-highlight, which is distributed with Git. See setup diff-highlight for more information.

• Installation using Vundle.vim.

  Plugin 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
  Plugin 'farhanmustar/fugitive-delta.nvim'

• Installation using vim-plug.

  Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
  Plug 'farhanmustar/fugitive-delta.nvim'

Features

• fugitive-delta add extra highlight group to diff and git buffer.
• It use FugitiveDeltaText highlight group which is default to:

highlight link FugitiveDeltaText DiffText

• Demo below showing 'changed' is highlighted using FugitiveDeltaText highlight group.

Setup diff-highlight

• Alternatively, if you do not want to install git-delta, you can use diff-highlight, which is distributed with Git.
• Distributions like Ubuntu, for example, require you to take extra steps to make diff-highlight available in your path.
• You need to run the following commands to make it available:

cd /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/diff-highlight/
sudo make
sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight /usr/local/bin/diff-highlight
sudo chmod +x /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight

• If you have both git-delta and diff-highlight available, you might need to force it to use diff-highlight by adding the following line to your Vim configuration:

let g:exe_fugitive_delta=2

• You can switch between the two in the current session by setting it to 1 for git-delta. You might want to do this to compare the two, as they have different highlighting behaviors.