git/contrib/vim/README
Markus Heidelberg abc776f788 contrib/vim: change URL to point to the latest syntax files
Vim's SVN repository doesn't offer the latest runtime files, since
normally they are only updated there on a release. Though currently
there is no difference between the SVN and HTTP/FTP version of the git
syntax files.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-12 23:36:03 -08:00

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Syntax highlighting for git commit messages, config files, etc. is
included with the vim distribution as of vim 7.2, and should work
automatically.
If you have an older version of vim, you can get the latest syntax
files from the vim project:
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