The command I use to check the project diff is
git diff | vimdiff -
Is there a way I can refresh the diff file without existing Vim and repeating the previous command?
2 Answers
The Vim instance only receives the diff information from stdin (via the | shell pipe), so there's no way to refresh that.
If you don't want to exit Vim and recall the command from the shell history, I would recommend using a plugin (like fugitive.vim - A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal) that allows you to trigger (and re-trigger!) a diff from within Vim.
In Vim:
:%d | .!git diff
The first part deletes all lines, and the second runs git diff in the cwd and pipes the output of this command to the buffer.
