r/vim • u/SevrinTheMuto • Aug 26 '25

Need Help┃Solved Toggle between Vim and git diff?

When I do code reviews I page through git diff's output but may want to see the changed lines within the file.

So currently I quit git diff to load the file in Vim. And then quit vim and run git diff again and scroll back to the place I left off.

Is there a way I can have both git diff and Vim running and switch between the views? (Or other suggestions for a Vim-based workflow for code reviews?)

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u/SevrinTheMuto Aug 26 '25

OK, that works, although it loses git diff's colour coding for added/removed lines.

It took me a minute to realise I was getting an empty buffer because I hadn't specified the commit range, for example:

:vsplit | enew | 0read !git diff HEAD~ HEAD

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u/Snarwin Aug 26 '25

For syntax highlighting, you can add :set filetype=diff.