" $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-util/git/files/vim-ftdetect-gitcommit.vim,v 1.1 2008/05/28 17:55:35 robbat2 Exp $ " This is what is suggested by the contrib/vim/README that ships with Git
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead COMMIT_EDITMSG setfiletype=gitcommit