Question

I was following the guide from here John Anderson Vim Setup to help setup vim. he steps through adding the various submodules to git in the format

git submodule add http://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive.git bundle/fugitive

since completing his guide I have made further changes. Getting ahead of myself I am on ubuntu my path is ~/.vim and I used the exact {autoload,bundle} setup as described in the guide.

I want to include the changes I added in my ~/.vimrc and the ohther bundles I have installed into my github so I can clone it and go on any other PC.

Really struggling to figure out how to get the changes in git. For example in my ~/.vim/bundle/ directory it has two new folders delimitMate and colorschemes. However when I do git push it returns everything as up to date.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Those are submodules, I figure. What you need to do, is:

# To add new modules
git add .gitmodules
git commit -m "Add new bundles"
# To add changes in vimrc
git add vimrc
git commit -m "Update my vimrc"
# To upload to Github
git push origin

On another PC, after cloning/pulling the Github repo, you need to:

git submodule init
git submodule update

To pull new changes to submodules you can later:

git submodule foreach git pull origin master
# NOTE: no trailing slash!
git add bundles/fugitive
git add bundles/etc
git commit -m "Update bundles"
git push

You can reduce the many adds by the following command:

git ls-files -m bundles | xargs git add