1Syntax highlighting for git commit messages, config files, etc. is 2included with the vim distribution as of vim 7.2, and should work 3automatically. 4 5If you have an older version of vim, you can get the latest syntax 6files from the vim project: 7 8 http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/git.vim 9 http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/gitcommit.vim 10 http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/gitconfig.vim 11 http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/gitrebase.vim 12 http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/gitsendemail.vim 13 14These files are also available via FTP at the same location. 15 16To install: 17 18 1. Copy these files to vim's syntax directory $HOME/.vim/syntax 19 2. To auto-detect the editing of various git-related filetypes: 20 $ cat >>$HOME/.vim/filetype.vim <<'EOF' 21 autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG setf gitcommit 22 autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.git/config,.gitconfig setf gitconfig 23 autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead git-rebase-todo setf gitrebase 24 autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead .msg.[0-9]* 25 \ if getline(1) =~ '^From.*# This line is ignored.$' | 26 \ setf gitsendemail | 27 \ endif 28 autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.git/** 29 \ if getline(1) =~ '^\x\{40\}\>\|^ref: ' | 30 \ setf git | 31 \ endif 32 EOF