Fugitive support

[jmbeach]

This is meant to be more of a discussion post.

For some reason, git-ai isn't working with the vim/nvim git plugin fugitive. I can't figure out why.

Fugitive even has support for a variable g:fugitive_git_executable, but even when that's directly set to my git-ai binary, I lose my AI data when I commit with fugitive and everything gets attributed to me instead of the ai.

[svarlamov]

Hey @jmbeach! Always excited to help get more support for git clients!

When you tried pointing g:fugitive_git_executable at git-ai which path did you use? Was it ~/.git-ai/bin/git or ~/.git-ai/bin/git-ai? I believe it should be the former in this case (this is our symlinked git exec path)

[jmbeach]

Thanks for the quick reply! It’s the former. I haven’t ruled out that fugitive isn’t doing something more than just running git commit, but it’s so strange. I (read “Claude”) even added a --is-git-ai flag to the source and I was able to verify that :G --is-git-ai returns true

[svarlamov]

Huh... That's very odd indeed... Is there any way to run fugitive in debug mode to see the git commands it's running and what their outputs are?

Also, are you using worktrees for this by any chance? We have an open PR to get full worktree support in asap

[jmbeach]

Opened #858.

Issue appears to be that fugitive passes --no-literal-pathspecs to git and git-ai bails out early because it doesn't recognize that flag.

Raw debug logs I got from fugitive:

--- [2026-03-29 21:53:22] :Git command ---
subcommand: commit
argv: ['git', '-c', 'color.advice=false', '-c', 'color.branch=false', '-c', 'color.diff=false', '-c', 'color.grep=false', '-c', 'color.interactive=false', '-c', 'color.pager=false', '-c', 'color.push=false', '-c', 'color.remote=false', '-c', 'color.showBranch=false', '-c', 'color.status=false', '-c', 'color.transport=false', '-c', 'color.ui=false', '--no-literal-pathspecs', '-c', 'advice.waitingForEditor=false', 'commit']
cwd: '/Users/jared/code/sandbox/git-ai-fugitive-test'
pty: 1

I built this version of git-ai locally and it fixes my issue

[svarlamov]

Closing since we no longer require git wrapping (or git hooks)! 🥳

https://usegitai.com/blog/git-ai-everywhere