If you're having font problems in gvim, see here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/The_perfect_programming_font Solution is to cd to ~/.fonts and run fc-cache

The .gitconfig should instead be .git/info/exclude (so you don't exclude everything from all repos IN home), and should look as follows

• exclude everything

  !.* # include all dotfiles

  exclude all dotfiles that you don't want to version

  !.vim/ !.vim !.vim !README