diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 66d01465..2c3f8564 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ sources_non_forked/ack.vim/.netrwhist
 temp_dirs/yankring_history_v2.txt
 sources_forked/yankring/doc/tags
 sources_non_forked/tlib/doc/tags
-my_configs.vim
+# checking in our own config into VC
+# my_configs.vim
 tags
 .DS_Store
diff --git a/my_configs.vim b/my_configs.vim
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1116f4c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/my_configs.vim
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+" add line number
+:set number