Vim git-flow-format

git-flow-format is a plugin for vim-airline, which formats a Git Flow branch name in order to shorten the prefixes and take up less space in your status line.

This is best shown with a couple of examples:

feature/new_thing --> F:new_thing
release/v1.0.0 --> R:v1.0.0

Installation

git-flow-format can be installed with Vundle or Pathogen in the normal way.

Vundle

Add the following line to your .vimrc and run :PluginInstall.

Plugin 'renyard/vim-git-flow-format'

Pathogen

Git clone the repo into your bundle directory:

git clone https://github.com/renyard/vim-git-flow-format.git ~/.vim/bundle/vim-git-flow-format

You can then configure vim-airline to use this format by adding the following line to your .vimrc:

let g:airline#extensions#branch#format = 'Git_flow_branch_format'

Customization

If you don't like the shortened prefixes provided by git-flow-format, you can provide a dictionary of your own prefixes in the style of the default:

let g:git_flow_prefixes = {
    \ 'master': '',
    \ 'develop': '',
    \ 'feature': 'F:',
    \ 'release': 'R:',
    \ 'hotfix': 'H:',
    \ 'support': 'S:',
    \ 'versiontag': 'V:'
\ }

Assigning an empty string, as in master and develop, will result in no substitution being performed for matching branches.