Making vim git aware

Question

1. I use Vim & Git together.
2. I tend to merge/switch Git branches alot.

3. I tend to have lots of vim buffers open.

4. Is there a way to tell vim: when I execute this git command (which switches branches), reload all buffers? Since I have hooks into all my vim-git interaction, letting vim know when to do the reload is not a problem. The question is: how to force vim to reload all buffers?

Answer 1

You can try setting the autoread option on.

:set autoread

From the vim help:

When a file has been detected to have been changed outside of Vim and it has not been changed inside of Vim, automatically read it again.