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How can I make Neovim automatically return to the tabpage that was active before running :Git diff %?

Before I commit my work in git, I often run :Git diff to review changes (the :Git command is supplied by fugitive). The :Git diff command runs in a new instance of Neovim's terminal, which seems to open in a new tabpage of its own. I press q to abort the process, and the new tabpage disappears. Neovim then activates the next available tabpage, instead of returning to the tabpage that was active before I ran :Git diff.

For example, suppose that I've got Neovim running with three tabpages. If I run 1gt to activate the first tabpage, then after running :Git diff I'll finish up on the second tabpage (I'll then press gT to go back to the tab I was working on). If I run 2gt to activate the second tabpage, then after running :Git diff I'll finish up on the third tabpage (again, gT gets me back to where I was). If I run 3gt, then I can run :Git diff and remain on the third tabpage, because it's the last one that's open.

I'd like to be able to run 1gt, then :Git diff, and to be automatically returned to the first tabpage when the terminal process exits. How can I make that happen?

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    I can't reproduce your problem here. I'm seeing that the git diff tab is created before the current active tab, which would make the "close-and-go-to-next" land on the good tab. Can this be the problem?
    – nobe4
    Commented Jan 20, 2017 at 15:35
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    Also, from the fugitive code it would make sense for the tab to be created before the current one: github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive/blob/master/plugin/…
    – nobe4
    Commented Jan 20, 2017 at 15:45
  • I typically use :Gstatus. If i am concerned with the exact nature of my commit I use the cvc command which does :Gcommit --verbose which gives the diff below the message. Commented Jan 20, 2017 at 22:33

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This patch on fugitive fixes this issue (and here's the PR). It looks like I was running an old version of fugitive. Upgrading to the latest fugitive fixed this issue for me.

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