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I often review Pull requests from the browser as it just makes it so easy to see the diffs and navigate through them, but there comes a time when the diffs...

Date: December 4, 2021

I often review Pull requests from the browser as it just makes it so easy to see the diffs and navigate through them, but there comes a time when the diffs get really big and hard to follow. That’s when its time to bring in the comforts of vim.

https://youtu.be/5NKaZFavM0E

Plugins needed
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This all stems from the great plugin by AndrewRadev <https://github.com/AndrewRadev>. It breaks a down into a project. So rather than poping into a pager from git </glossary/git/> diff, you can pipe to diffurcate and it will setup a project in a tmp directory for you and you can browse this project just like any other except it’s just a diff.

[code]
  Plug 'AndrewRadev/diffurcate.vim'

My aliases
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First to quickly checkout PR’s from azure devops I have setup an alias to fuzzy select a pr and let the az command do the checkout.

[code]
  alias azcheckout='az repos pr checkout --id $(az repos pr list --output table | tail -n -2 | fzf | cut -d " " -f1)'

Next I have a few aliases setup for checking diffs. The first one checks what is staged vs the current branch, the others check the current branch vs main or master.

[code]
  alias diffstaged="git diff --staged | nvim - +Diffurcate '+Telescope find_files'"
  alias diffmain="git diff main.. | nvim - +Diffurcate '+Telescope find_files'"
  alias diffmaster="git diff master.. | nvim - +Diffurcate '+Telescope find_files'"

  diffcommit() {
      git diff $1 | nvim - +Diffurcate '+Telescope find_files'
  }

Links
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- diffurcte.vim