In this context older vims are those without timer_start() and lambda.
The plugin always used to process the buffer at startup. Then in #734
an optimisation was introduced to defer processing at startup, to keep
vim's startup fast. However in this optimisation older vim's
unintentionally lost their startup processing altogether.
If the user has removed the "gitgutter CursorHold" autocommand, which
is the documented way to turn off automatic refreshing, calling the
autocommand at start up will fail. Use a timer instead.
This implementation also changes the processing delay to 1ms instead of
'updatetime'.
See #840.
In da77e46310 the function changed to be
consistent with GitGutterGetHunks(), i.e. to show "no data" if called in
a buffer for which gitgutter is inactive.
This function is mostly used in status lines. GitGutter is inactive
when a popup window is open. The commit mentioned above meant that when
a completion window was open, the hunk summary in the status line
changed to show no data. It changed back again once the completion
window was closed, but the overall effect was a little distracting.
This commit reverts the change.
Closes#771.
If GitGutter* highlight groups already exist, they were declared
deliberately (either by the colorscheme maintainer or the user). So do
not adjust them.
However if you would like to make the signs' backgrounds match the sign
column, you can do this:
let g:gitgutter_set_sign_backgrounds = 1
This was introduced in 07d7c9d4 because many colorschemes at the time
had ugly sign columns, and people kept asking how to deal with it.
These days there are many more plugins which use the sign column and
consequently more colorschemes pay attention to the SignColumn highlight
group.
Therefore it no longer makes sense for vim-gitgutter to adjust the
sign column's appearance.
To restore the previous behaviour, add this to your vimrc:
highlight! link SignColumn LineNr
See #696.
On Vims that support it, signs are placed in the "gitgutter" group with
a priority set by g:gitgutter_sign_priority.
Closes#544.
Closes#576.
Closes#627.
This removes the g:gitgutter_sign_column_always option.
Vim 7.4.2201 introduced the |signcolumn| option to configure when the
signcolumn is visible, building in behaviour which the plugin provided
manually.
Although it would be good to maintain this feature for older Vims, the
complexity added by the code outweighs the benefit of backward
compatibility.
