Advice for easily switching ~/.vim?

Hello,

Does anyone have a quick way to open Vim with a bare-bones
~/.vim directory and ~/.vimrc, etc?

I'm developing a plugin, and before I publish a new version
of the plugin, I like to test the plugin using a bare-bones
~./vimrc with my plugin installed.

Currently, I use a shell-script to switch symlinks. For example, I have
two directories:

~/bare_vim_settings (this dir has nothing but my plugin in it)
~/real_vim_settings (this dir has all my settings/plugins in it)

I just run a script that links ~/.vim to ~/bare_vim_settings
and ~/.vimrc to ~/bare_vim_settings/bare_vimrc

The disadvantage of this is that when my ~/.vim directory is pointing
to ~/bare_vim_settings, I'm stuck using Vim with bare settings.

Is there a way to run vim like this:

vim --settings-directory ~/bare_vim_settings

this would create one instance of Vim with the bare settings, and any
other instances
of vim that I start would have my full-blown plugins/settings enabled.

Thanks,
--Nate

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