Even without the plugin, you can spawn a diff in vim via git's difftool settings. Here's a basic version that can be used in one's .gitconfig: [diff]

Even without the plugin, you can spawn a diff in vim via git's difftool settings. Here's a basic version that can be used in one's .gitconfig: [diff] tool = customvim [difftool "customvim"] cmd = vim -R -f -d \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"