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://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/git.vim 9 http://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/gitcommit.vim 10 http://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/gitconfig.vim 11 http://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/gitrebase.vim 12 http://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/gitsendemail.vim 13 14To install: 15 16 1. Copy these files to vim's syntax directory $HOME/.vim/syntax 17 2. To auto-detect the editing of various git-related filetypes: 18 $ cat >>$HOME/.vim/filetype.vim <<'EOF' 19 autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG setf gitcommit 20 autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.git/config,.gitconfig setf gitconfig 21 autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead git-rebase-todo setf gitrebase 22 autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead .msg.[0-9]* 23 \ if getline(1) =~ '^From.*# This line is ignored.$' | 24 \ setf gitsendemail | 25 \ endif 26 autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.git/** 27 \ if getline(1) =~ '^\x\{40\}\>\|^ref: ' | 28 \ setf git | 29 \ endif 30 EOF