Why? It’s all about the vim on windows' thing. Gvim and vim-in-git The official vim for windows (namely Gvim), compiled for win32 system, looks for user vim packages from windows style directory `$HOME/vimfiles`. While the vim bundled with git for windows, which was compiled by mingw64, looks into a Unix style directory `$HOME/.vim` for the same thing. The diverse of user packages will not cause any trouble, if you don’t have any vim related customization for yourself like me does. Things get changed until recently VIM upgraded to 8.0. The new vim packages system The new vim comes with its own package management system namely vim packages. This package system makes it simple to install third-party vim plugins by just clone github plugin repo into the vimfiles directories. SOMENAME/pack/PACKAGENAME/start (for ftplugins) SOMENAME/pack/PACKAGENAME/opt (for colorscheme plugins) How to merge the two vimfiles Solution 1: Make use of multiple repo management software suc...