How to turn on git syntax highlighting on vim on a Mac

Question

I just recently switched over to Mac. On windows I was using git through the msysgit project. When doing a git rebase -i I'm used to get a nice syntax highlighting in vim. I'm missing it badly now that I'm on Mac. How can I get it back?

Solution

I just figured out all I need is to create a ~/.vimrc file with a line that reads

syntax on

Comments

[Admin]

the colors for the git log etc do work, yes. I have git config --global color.ui true

[Admin]

Did you not copy your previous Vim config over?

[Admin]

msysgitseemed to abstract all those difficulties away from the end user. All the highlighting worked just out of the box so until my first interactive rebase on my new MacBook I didn't even know that something like a vim config does even exist :)

[Admin]

as a side note, may i introduce you to vim-fugitive ? github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive (see the screencasts on vimcast.org vimcasts.org/episodes/…)

[Admin]

Need to check it out :)

[Admin]

I created the .vimrcat ~/ with the line that you postet and also created the gitrebase.vim file at ~/.vim/syntax/ with the content from that link. Then I reopened the terminal and tried it. It doesn't work. Anything I might be missing?

[Admin]

Ok, I just figured out all I need is that .vimrc file with a line that reads syntax on

[snowe2010]

you should mark your answer as correct. It helped me for sure!