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