Yup, came here to second this recommendation. A lot of the benefits found in tig can be found in fugitive. One feature of fugitive I use all the time is Gdiff t

Yup, came here to second this recommendation. A lot of the benefits found in tig can be found in fugitive. One feature of fugitive I use all the time is Gdiff to allow quick and easy comparison of various versions of a file. Nonetheless, the history view and other features of tig are worth checking out. [Edited for links] Fugitive: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive Some helpful screencasts can be found here between April and May 2011 http://vimcasts.org/episodes/archive http://vimcasts.org/episodes/archive