Run from home directory:
# clone the repo
$ git clone git@github.com:slindberg/dotvim .vim
# link the repo's vimrc to .vimrc
$ ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc .vimrc
# create a system-specific .gvimrc that sources the repo version
$ echo 'source ~/.vim/gvimrc' > .gvimrc
# run make to initialize plugins, etc.
$ (cd .vim && make all)# add the plugin as a submodule
$ git submodule add git@github.com:user/vim-plugin.git bundle/plugin
# run make to initialize the submodule, link it to be active, and generate help tags
$ make