git/vim at 867bf7b490d6a4bd19b6f9ff7d30af654e9df276 - git

Tree: 867bf7b490

Jonathan Nieder 9a6dcb37bd contrib/vim: simplify instructions for old vim support Rely on the upstream filetype.vim instead of duplicating its rules in git's instructions for syntax highlighting support on pre-7.2 vim versions. The result is a shorter contrib/vim/README. More importantly, it lets us punt on maintenance of the autocmd rules. So now when we fix the upstream gitsendemail rule in light of commit `eed6ca7`, new git users stuck on old vim reading contrib/vim/README can automagically get the fix without any further changes needed to git. Once the world has moved on to vim 7.2+ completely, we can get rid of these instructions, but for now if they are this simple it's effortless to keep them. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	12 years ago
..
README	contrib/vim: simplify instructions for old vim support	12 years ago

Jonathan Nieder 9a6dcb37bd contrib/vim: simplify instructions for old vim support

Rely on the upstream filetype.vim instead of duplicating its rules in
git's instructions for syntax highlighting support on pre-7.2 vim
versions.

The result is a shorter contrib/vim/README.  More importantly, it lets
us punt on maintenance of the autocmd rules.

So now when we fix the upstream gitsendemail rule in light of commit
eed6ca7, new git users stuck on old vim reading contrib/vim/README can
automagically get the fix without any further changes needed to git.

Once the world has moved on to vim 7.2+ completely, we can get rid of
these instructions, but for now if they are this simple it's
effortless to keep them.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

12 years ago

README contrib/vim: simplify instructions for old vim support 12 years ago

README

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:

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