I work on git tags on a daily basis & switch between 'em. I have my lightline configured where it does display git branch in status bar of lightline. But I am trying to display git tag as well. gitbranch component from lightline does display the commit id when I checkout / switch to a tag but those commit ids are pretty much unusable.
Here is my lightline block in neovim config:
let g:lightline = {
\ 'colorscheme': 'powerline',
\ 'active': {
\ 'left': [['statuslinetabs', 'lineinfo'], ['gitbranch', 'gittag', 'readonly', 'modified']],
\ 'right': [['mode'], ['paste'], ['absolutepath']],
\ },
\ 'inactive': {
\ 'left': [[], ['line', 'relativepath', 'readonly', 'modified']],
\ 'right': [[], [], ['gitbranch']],
\ },
\ 'component_expand': {
\ 'statuslinetabs': 'LightlineStatuslineTabs',
\ },
\ 'component_function': {
\ 'gitbranch': 'MyFugitiveHead'
\ },
\ 'component': {
\ 'clock': '%{strftime("%a %d %b %I:%M%p")}'
\ },
\ }
In help of fugitive's AUTOCOMMANDS section it does say -
AUTOCOMMANDS fugitive-autocommands
A handful of User autocommands are provided to allow extending and
overriding Fugitive behaviors. Example usage:
autocmd User FugitiveBlob,FugitiveStageBlob call s:BlobOverrides()
User_FugitiveTag
FugitiveTag After loading a tag object.
But I am unable to figure how to utilize that as neither component or component_fuction.
Please advice!
Thanks.
Found a solution, not the vim-fugitive but native git way - via system calls. Just declared below as a component (not function) and since I work with multiple tags sometimes, used xargs to show all tags pointing to head. Includes non-git files scenario command output sending to /dev/null.
\ 'component': {
\ 'gittag': '%{substitute(system("git tag --points-at HEAD 2>/dev/null | xargs"), "\n", "|", "g")}',
\ },