Wrap Git With Fugitive

From the Fugitive Github page:

I'm not going to lie to you; fugitive.vim may very well be the best Git wrapper of all time. Check out these features:

View any blob, tree, commit, or tag in the repository with :Gedit (and :Gsplit, :Gvsplit, :Gtabedit, ...). Edit a file in the index and write to it to stage the changes. Use :Gdiff to bring up the staged version of the file side by side with the working tree version and use Vim's diff handling capabilities to stage a subset of the file's changes.

Quite simply, Fugitive provides a ton of awesome hooks for integrating Vim with Git's best features. Check it out!

Sensible Defaults with Vim-Sensible

If you have a fresh Vim install, and you'd like a sensible set of defaults, consider installing the vim-sensible plugin. If you've already installed Pathogen, installing the plugin can be accomplished as follows.

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible.git