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 21 $ curl http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/filetype.vim | 22 sed -ne '/^" Git$/, /^$/ p' >>$HOME/.vim/filetype.vim