On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:14:19PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > The idea is that red things indicate a potential mistake on the part of the > user (e.g., forgetting to update a file, forgetting to git-add a file). I actually wanted to do this because I started syntax-highlighting the git-commit message in vim. I found myself catching simple mistakes in commits, like the ones I mentioned above, before committing, saving me from doing an --amend. Then I got so hooked on it I wanted the colorization everytime I ran git-status. If anyone is interested in the vim syntax highlighting, it is below. Copy the file to $HOME/.vim/syntax/gitcommit.vim and add the following line to your .vimrc: autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead COMMIT_EDITMSG set filetype=gitcommit -Peff -- >8 -- syn region gitLine start=/^#/ end=/$/ syn region gitCommit start=/^# Updated but not checked in:$/ end=/^#$/ contains=gitHead,gitCommitFile syn region gitHead contained start=/^# (.*)/ end=/^#$/ syn region gitChanged start=/^# Changed but not updated:/ end=/^#$/ contains=gitHead,gitChangedFile syn region gitUntracked start=/^# Untracked files:/ end=/^#$/ contains=gitHead,gitUntrackedFile syn match gitCommitFile contained /^#\t.*/hs=s+2 syn match gitChangedFile contained /^#\t.*/hs=s+2 syn match gitUntrackedFile contained /^#\t.*/hs=s+2 hi def link gitLine Comment hi def link gitCommit Comment hi def link gitChanged Comment hi def link gitHead Comment hi def link gitUntracked Comment hi def link gitCommitFile Type hi def link gitChangedFile Constant hi def link gitUntrackedFile Constant - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html