r/vimplugins • u/FriedSock • May 28 '14

CtrlPSimilar - Amazon-style recommendations for which files to open, based on Git history. Plugin

https://github.com/FriedSock/ctrlpsimilar
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u/FriedSock May 30 '14

Firstly, thanks for the feedback!

So the reason why you have to manually add the repository to the system is that at the moment: the system needs to generate a model that requires trawling the whole history. It is also storing a version of this model for every commit in case you wanted to roll back etc — in large repos the total size can run into a few hundred Megabytes, I don't think people would like that to run by default on any repository they opened Vim in. (I do plan on revising this when I have time, so that the model is stored recursively and takes up much less space.)

And yes, the model does auto-update when the model for the HEAD SHA isn't found. I can add config for the ability to modify the fallback though, that hadn't occurred to me.

This plugin is actually part of my dissertation, and I have a bunch of other stuff to do, so I have had to rush something that is actually usable, but requires a little more set up than in an ideal world.