Run the following command to make the dotvim effective:
git clone --recurse-submodules git://github.com/LKI/dotvim.git ~/.vim
If your git version is lower than 1.6.5, you may try these commands equally:
git clone git://github.com/LKI/dotvim.git ~/.vim
cd ~/.vim
git submodule init
git submodule update
If you come across SSL certificate verification error, you may work around this issue by turning off the verification temporarily:
export GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true
Then you create a symbol link to the .vim/vimrc file:
ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc
Windows installation is similar except that you clone the project into vimfiles sub directory instead of .vim and copy the vimrc file into _vimrc instead of soft-linking to .vimrc under your home directory. Here are the commands relevant to Windows for your convenience:
cd c:\Users\xxx
git clone --recurse-submodules git://github.com/LKI/dotvim.git vimfiles
copy vimfiles\vimrc _vimrc
The vimrc on Windows uses a patched free Inconsolata font for powerline , you may download it from here.