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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+git_bundles = [
+  "git://github.com/godlygeek/tabular.git",
+  "git://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic",
+  "git://github.com/rodjek/vim-puppet.git",
+  "https://github.com/bling/vim-airline",
+  "https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive",
+  "https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips.git",
+  "https://github.com/honza/vim-snippets",
+]
+
+vim_org_scripts = [
+  ["IndexedSearch", "7062",  "plugin"],
+  ["jquery",        "12107", "syntax"],
+]
+
+require 'fileutils'
+require 'open-uri'
+
+bundles_dir = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "bundle")
+
+FileUtils.cd(bundles_dir)
+
+puts "trashing everything (lookout!)"
+Dir["*"].each {|d| FileUtils.rm_rf d }
+
+git_bundles.each do |url|
+  dir = url.split('/').last.sub(/\.git$/, '')
+  puts "unpacking #{url} into #{dir}"
+  `git clone #{url} #{dir}`
+  FileUtils.rm_rf(File.join(dir, ".git"))
+end
+
+vim_org_scripts.each do |name, script_id, script_type|
+  puts "downloading #{name}"
+  local_file = File.join(name, script_type, "#{name}.vim")
+  FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(local_file))
+  File.open(local_file, "w") do |file|
+    file << open("http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=#{script_id}").read
+  end
+end