Sometimes when I'm browsing some code in Vim, I'll want to open up the a file in GitHub. This is usually so that I can grab a URL to share as a point of reference in a conversation.
To do this, I run vim-fugitive's
:Gbrowse which will open up the current file for the current commit on the
current branch.
This works great if your current branch is the main branch. Or if your
current branch has previously been pushed up as a remote. It doesn't work so
well if you are on a local-only feature branch. You'll get the classic Star
Wars themed GitHub 404 page.
There is a handy workaround. You can specify the branch and file you want when you run the command.
:Gbrowse main:app/models/user.rb
That will open the specified file (app/models/user.rb) as it exists on the
specified branch (main).
A shorthand of that for the current file looks like this:
:Gbrowse main:%