If you have an older version of vim, you can get the latest syntax
files from the vim project:
- http://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/git.vim
- http://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/gitcommit.vim
- http://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/gitconfig.vim
- http://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/gitrebase.vim
- http://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/gitsendemail.vim
+ http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/git.vim
+ http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/gitcommit.vim
+ http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/gitconfig.vim
+ http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/gitrebase.vim
+ http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/gitsendemail.vim
+
+These files are also available via FTP at the same location.
To install:
1. Copy these files to vim's syntax directory $HOME/.vim/syntax
2. To auto-detect the editing of various git-related filetypes:
- $ cat >>$HOME/.vim/filetype.vim <<'EOF'
- autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG setf gitcommit
- autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.git/config,.gitconfig setf gitconfig
- autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead git-rebase-todo setf gitrebase
- autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead .msg.[0-9]*
- \ if getline(1) =~ '^From.*# This line is ignored.$' |
- \ setf gitsendemail |
- \ endif
- autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.git/**
- \ if getline(1) =~ '^\x\{40\}\>\|^ref: ' |
- \ setf git |
- \ endif
- EOF
+
+ $ curl http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/filetype.vim |
+ sed -ne '/^" Git$/, /^$/ p' >>$HOME/.vim/filetype.vim