Add after/ftplugin for gitcommit to quote with >

I love the way this works when writing mail, and find myself missing it
when writing Git commits that include block quotes. This is ported from
ftplugin/mail.vim.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vim/after/ftplugin/gitcommit/quote.vim b/vim/after/ftplugin/gitcommit/quote.vim
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index 00000000..61fa0509
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+++ b/vim/after/ftplugin/gitcommit/quote.vim
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+" gitcommit/quote.vim: Make angle-bracket quote characters behave like they do
+" in mail messages, inserting the comment leader automatically on new lines
+" and auto-formatting them.
+
+" Don't load if running compatible or too old
+if &compatible || v:version < 700
+  finish
+endif
+
+" Don't load if already loaded
+if exists('b:did_ftplugin_gitcommit_quote')
+  finish
+endif
+
+" Flag as loaded
+let b:did_ftplugin_gitcommit_quote = 1
+let b:undo_ftplugin = b:undo_ftplugin
+      \ . '|unlet b:did_ftplugin_gitcommit_quote'
+
+" Use trailing whitespace to denote continued paragraph
+setlocal comments+=n:>
+setlocal formatoptions+=c
+let b:undo_ftplugin = b:undo_ftplugin
+      \ . '|setlocal comments<'
+      \ . '|setlocal formatoptions<'