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You can update your bundles straight from the command line with:

vim +BundleInstall! +qall

Vim still opens but could be useful if you're trying to automate vim somehow.

Yeah. I'm just citing the only reason I've heard, which is that invoking vim just to update a plugin is gross. Which is kinda true - what happens if your vim config is in some bad state and doesn't start properly, your update process breaks unnecessarily (odd coupling to have). Definitely edge case-y, but a tradeoff anyway.

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