Sync Vim With Github And Vundle

I have been fiddling with Vim lately while I was learning Ruby on Rails. The only thing I was learning was

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hjkl

So I decided to do something fancy, to sync them across my mac. Totally have nothing to do with improving vim foo, but it’s fun. I got started from this blog post from VimCasts using Pathogen.

But being in love with Vundle after using spf13, I insist on using Vundle. Turns out, it’s much easier with Vundle since no need to install git submodule or update them. Vundle takes care all of them for you.

Note: if you are farmilar with everything, have your .vim on github and just want to switch to Vundle, there are two steps:

1. Install Vundle as usual. Instruction is here
2. Put

   1	~/.vim/bundle

   to your .gitignore.
3. See my example, sloppy github repo

Here is the long step by step version.

Setting up ~.vim

I’m going to be short and brief here. Read the original post if you are confused on the steps.

If you have your own

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~/.vim

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.vimrc

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~/.vim

    mv .vimrc ~/.vim/.vimrc
    mv .gvimrc ~/.vim/.vimrc
    ln -s ~/.vim/.vimrc ~/.vimrc
    ln -s ~/.vim/.gvimrc ~/.gvimrc

Setting Up Git

Turns your .vim directory to a git directory, make an empty README, commit.

    cd ~/.vim
    git init
    touch README.md
    git add --all
    git commit -m "Initial Commit with Empty README.md"

Now that you have a local git, makes a repository on github. If you are unsure how to do that, visit this help page

Obtain your git repo link such as

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git@github.com:username/repository-name.git

    git remote add origin git@github.com:username/repository-name.git.
    git push origin master

Now you have everything linked up to your github, we are ready to install Vundle.

Setting Up Vundle

First, let’s install Vundle in your machine:

    git clone https://github.com/gmarik/vundle.git ~/.vim/bundle/vundle

Then make sure these are in your

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.vimrc

    set nocompatible               " be iMproved
    filetype off                   " required!
    set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/vundle/
    call vundle#rc()

    " let Vundle manage Vundle
    " required! 
    Bundle 'gmarik/vundle'
    filetype plugin indent on     " required!

You of course can read more about Vundle here

Install and Manage Bundles

With Vundles installed, to install any git-managed plugins, find the corresponding git directory and the link to your

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.vimrc

     " My Bundles here:
     "
     " original repos on github
     Bundle 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
     Bundle 'Lokaltog/vim-easymotion'
     Bundle 'rstacruz/sparkup', {'rtp': 'vim/'}
     Bundle 'tpope/vim-rails.git'
     " vim-scripts repos
     Bundle 'L9'
     Bundle 'FuzzyFinder'
     " non github repos
     Bundle 'git://git.wincent.com/command-t.git'
     " git repos on your local machine (ie. when working on your own plugin)
     Bundle 'file:///Users/gmarik/path/to/plugin'
     " ...
 

So now, open Vim (or mVim) and install the bundles with:

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:BundleInstall

All your bundles that you put in

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.vimrc

Let Vundle Manage Bundles

The only thing we are going to sync is your .vimrc. We will not sync Vundle bundles or even Vundles itself. We’ll let Vundles manage all of that. So, don’t let git manage your

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~/.vim/bundle

    touch .gitignore
    echo "bundle/*" >> .gitignore
    echo "~/.vim/bundle/* >> .gitignore
    git status
    git add .gitignore
    git commit -am "Add .gitignore"