Synced Vim across different locations

My favorite editor is vim. How do I manage to have all configurations, plugins etc. synced between different accounts/workplaces?

Simply using git and GitHub. I have repository where I store all my configs, plugins and scripts on GitHub. This repository is checked out in each location where I’m working. Usually it’s in ~/src/vim and then symlinks from ~/src/vim/.vimrc to ~/.vimrc and ~/src/vim/.vim to ~/.vim.

$ ls -la .vimrc .vim

lrwxr-xr-x  1 karl  staff     12 Apr  9 13:03 .vim -> src/vim/.vim
lrwxr-xr-x  1 karl  staff     14 Apr  9 13:02 .vimrc -> src/vim/.vimrc

Each time there is some change, easily commit the change and push the changes. On any other machine just pull changes. Easy!

Keeping plugins updated

This solves issues with having vimrc and vim directory synced. But what about plugins like fugitive which are hosted on GitHub and they have active development? git-subtree is the remedy! Simply create subtree for each plugin in .vim/bundle directory. This expects that you are using pathogen.

• install pathogen and follow instruction for directory structure

• find your best plugin url https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

• in root of your vim repo execute git subtree

$ git subtree add --prefix .vim/bundle/vim-fugitive --squash https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive master

git fetch https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive master
From https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Added dir '.vim/bundle/vim-fugitive'

• git log returns something similar

Commit 31ecc97fe70092a99ddc913d3615e3a0dcd9d87c
Merge: a20490b 4cd5c7b
Author: Karel Rank <karel.rank@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue May 3 22:00:40 2016 -0400

   Merge commit '4cd5c7b009497155b18ee4b574207838f73c13b0' as '.vim/bundle/vim-fugitive'

commit 4cd5c7b009497155b18ee4b574207838f73c13b0
Author: Karel Rank <karel.rank@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue May 3 22:00:40 2016 -0400

   Squashed '.vim/bundle/vim-fugitive/' content from commit bdd2168

   git-subtree-dir: .vim/bundle/vim-fugitive
   git-subtree-split: bdd216827ae53cdf70d933bb30762da9bf42cad4

• when plugin is updated run git subtree pull

$ git subtree pull --prefix .vim/bundle/vim-fugitive --squash https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive master

From https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
 .vim/bundle/vim-fugitive/plugin/fugitive.vim | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Unfortunately you have to remember url of the source repo. But patch to store repo into commit message was submited http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288606