thoughtbot/dotfiles — Issue #12: Restructure with pathogen
Author: cloud8421
Created: 2011-11-25 18:08:18+00:00
State: open

Hi there!

Is there a reason why you're not using Pathogen to manage plugins? I've run through them and > 90% (given that most of them are by Tim Pope himself) have a Github repository available that would be perfect with Pathogen.

See here: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/synchronizing-plugins-with-git-submodules-and-pathogen/ for the benefit.

I've been doing it for a while with my previous Vim configuration and it rocks, you can easily update all of your plugins with

git submodule foreach git pull origin master

As a matter of fact, you could also structure the dot files themselves as a repo with submodules, having for example vimrc.local as a submodule you can maintain separately (everyone has its own preferences :-) ).