[johncoltrane]

Not sure where you got that idea: I use pathogen without involving Git at all.

[slurgfest]

OK, then you have some kind of shell script to do the downloads, or you do them all manually each time. These are not better alternatives

[johncoltrane]

My ~/.vim is under version control (Git) but not every plugin is available through Git. Some plugin developers use Mercurial, others use Subversion or whatever and most only provide a .tar, a .zip, a vimball or even a single vim script. This Git myopia is seriously getting on my nerve.

[ibotty]

it does when you want to have your vim configuration in git. and vundle might be easier then (not, that using git submodules is so extremly hard).