NOTE: I've abandoned pathogen in favor of vundle. vundle plays nicer with initial setup of a box. I have one less repo to worry about (dotfiles only vs. dotfiles and dotvim).

Vim configuration and plugins

This is my vim setup using pathogen. All plugins are submodules existing under bundle/. Pathogen itself lives under pathogen and is symlinked to autoload/.

Installation

cd ~
git clone http://github.com/peteyoung/dotvim.git ~/.vim
ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/.vim/gvimrc ~/.gvimrc
cd ~/.vim
git submodule init
git submodule update

Add a new plugin as git submodule in .vim/bundle

cd ~/.vim
git submodule add https://github.com/<account>/<plugin-repo>.git bundle/<plugin-name>
git add .
git commit -m "Install <plugin-name> bundle as a submodule."

Update all plugins and pathogen

cd ~/.vim
git submodule foreach git pull origin master

Update an individual plugin

cd ~/.vim/bundle/foo
git pull origin master

Add pathogen as git submodule in .vim/pathogen

cd ~/.vim
git submodule add https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen.git pathogen
ln -s ~/.vim/pathogen/autoload/pathogen.vim ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim