For small projects, Fossil is a great choice for version control. Fossil's command-line interface is very easy to use and plays nice with utilities like grep, gawk and xargs. The following are examples of common operations:

• Check in only edited files: fossil changes | grep EDITED | gawk '{print $2}' | xargs fossil commit -m "Added feature X."

• Add only files with name containing "pattern" to repo: fossil extras | grep pattern | xargs fossil add

• Move files in repo …

Here is a nice simple vimrc file addition that will execute a line as a shell command and read back the output into the buffer: nnoremap <Leader>rl yy:r!<C-r>"<CR>