Jump through git diff

Question

I use and love Tim Pope's excellent Fugitive plugin for VIM, I've always wanted the ability to load up a diff of all of the files in the :Glog quickfix and cycles through them to the file in HEAD (or maybe any revision!) individually. Using :diffthis doesn't persist the diff when I switch to previous versions and macros seem like a kindof off way to solve it.

Is there a canonical way to do this?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there is currently no way to do this; There are a lot of ways you could make the process relatively painless, and I could definitely script it for you, except for one thing; when you unload the buffer of a fugitive-revision in diff mode, fugitive bends over backwards (tpope's own words) to stop the diff in the original file for you.

I really like the behaviour you're proposing, so I went ahead and submitted an issue to the project on GitHub. Tpope willing, this will be addressed soon, and I'll be more than happy to post a script that will completely automate this behaviour then.