I am not a very orderly person at times and I often find myself in the situation of losing my old fully tweaked vimrc file and having to start over all again. Or having differen
There is also a very nice way to install plugins using Version Control, Since most of the VIM plugin are available on GITHUB it also help.
Please see this Article which tells you how to keep your .VIM file synchronized using GIT, and load plugin as a sub module with the help of PATHOGEN plugin.
Use GIT for Syncing VI plugins
In short of what is mentioned in the vimcast and i am quoting from the Blog.