dotvim: A Vim script repository from cdeboever3

This repository holds my vim packages and configuration packages. This set up relies on the vim pathogen plugin. If you are interested in using this set up, see the original blog post (References below) for help with first-time configuration.

Install Vim environment on another machine

Clone repository:

git clone https://github.com/cdeboever3/dotvim.git ~/.vim

Create symlinks:

ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/.vim/gvimrc ~/.gvimrc

Switch to the ~/.vim directory, and fetch submodules:

cd ~/.vim
git submodule init
git submodule update

Install new submodules into environment

Here is an example installing the Fugitive vim package:

cd ~/.vim
mkdir ~/.vim/bundle
git submodule add http://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive.git bundle/fugitive
git add .
git commit -m "Install Fugitive.vim bundle as a submodule."

Upgrading a plugin bundle

Example updating Fugitive vim package:

cd ~/.vim/bundle/fugitive
git pull origin master

Upgrading all bundled plugins

git submodule foreach git pull origin master

Untracked content in bundle submodules

Git may complain about untracked content in the bundle submodules:

modified:   bundle/Vim-R-plugin (untracked content)

You can modify .gitmodules to ignore the submodules like so:

[submodule "path/to/submodule"]
    path = path/to/submodule
    url = http://github.com/username/repo.git
    ignore = dirty  # <====

You can also use ignore = untracked. See here and here for more information.

References

This set up came from this post:

http://vimcasts.org/episodes/synchronizing-plugins-with-git-submodules-and-pathogen/