vim-signify

As a trivial example, I spent a couple of hours last night pruning stuff I didn't need from one of my text editor plugins (https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify). I was able to take it down from 1400 lines to sub-300 lines. And in the process it became a lot clearer precisely what the algorithmic core of the library was. A valuable learning experience. vim-signify was 800 lines large back in 2014 when I first started using it. How much of the stuff added since mattered to me? Almost nothing. These are the costs we all take on -- death by a thousand cuts -- when we blindly import dependencies.

I would recommend ditching gitgutter for vim-signify: https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify It is less buggy and doesn't refresh until you save, which I find to be less distracting.

vim-signify[1] supports more VCSs (git, hg, bzr, svn, ...). [1] https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify

This is my version of some kind of git-gutter plugin for Vim; vim-signify. Features: - supports git, mercurial, bazaar, subversion, cvs - pretty well documented - _everything_ is configurable through variables - quite fast - can be toggled on a per-buffer base - preserving of signs set by other plugins (optional) - additional line highlighting (optional) I started writing it 3 days ago, but it's working pretty good for me already. I'd like to get some more feedback now. Thanks in advance. (Feature requests are feedback, too!)

There is another implementation, it's a bit faster and well documented :) And there is more customisable as well https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify