Your message dated Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:49:52 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1101963: fixed in neovim-qt 0.2.19-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #1101963,
regarding gvim: default behaviour of detaching from terminal is incompatible
with e.g. git-difftool
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Package: neovim-qt
Version: 0.2.16-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
I spotted this (potential?) bug when attempting to use git difftool,
with gvim as the selected tool, e.g.
git difftool --tool=gvimdiff
It seems this command expects gvim to remain attached to the terminal.
As nvim-qt detaches (even when called via 'gvim'), git difftool thinks
gvim has finished and exited before it even loads and consequently
deletes the necessary temp files. This means the diffs cannot be read in
nvim - it just shows empty buffers for the temp files.
I'm assuming this is not how gvim is expected to behave, or how other
providers of gvim behave, given that it is not what git expects. Thus, I
propose the following patch. Change /usr/libexec/neovim-qt/gvim by
adding the --nofork option so it reads:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/nvim-qt --nofork -- "$@"
After doing this, 'git difftool --tool=gvimdiff' now works as expected.
Thanks for your time. Hope this report helped.
Cheers,
Oscar
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.10
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-32-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages neovim-qt depends on:
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u10
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14
ii libmsgpackc2 4.0.0-3
ii libqt5core5a 5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii libqt5gui5 5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii libqt5network5 5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii libqt5svg5 5.15.8-3
ii libqt5widgets5 5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14
ii neovim 0.7.2-7
neovim-qt recommends no packages.
neovim-qt suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/nvim-qt --nofork -- "$@"
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: neovim-qt
Source-Version: 0.2.19-2
Done: James McCoy <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
neovim-qt, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
James McCoy <[email protected]> (supplier of updated neovim-qt package)
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:14:23 -0400
Source: neovim-qt
Architecture: source
Version: 0.2.19-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Vim Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: James McCoy <[email protected]>
Closes: 1101963
Changes:
neovim-qt (0.2.19-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ James McCoy ]
* Set NVIM_API_LEVEL in the target, rather than the body
* Remove Priority, since optional is the default
* Remove Rules-Requires-Root, since no is the default
* Declare compliance with Policy 4.7.4
* Switch to debhelper compat 14
* Move Build-Depends not needed for clean to Build-Depends-Arch
* gvim: Translate -f switch to --nofork (Closes: #1101963)
.
[ Santiago Vila ]
* Disable flaky tests until they're fixed upstream, working around #1102308
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