Re: [PATCH] contrib/vim: change URL to point to the latest syntax files

Jeff King (2009-01-13 02:16 -0500) wrote:

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:10:26AM +0100, Markus Heidelberg wrote:

quoted

Vim's SVN repository doesn't offer the latest runtime files, since
normally they are only updated there on a release. Though currently
there is no difference between the SVN and HTTP/FTP version of the
git syntax files.

So their version control _doesn't_ have the latest version, but it is
available on the website? It's not that I don't believe you, but I
don't think I want to know the version control workflow that leads to
that.

Vim is essentially just a one-man project and the maintainer doesn't use
version control system. He just piles "diff -c" -type patches on top of
the previous release and sends them to vim-dev mailing list and to some
FTP site. Then other people try to maintain VCS repositories based on
the patches and resources that are available.

Vim's bus factor: 1

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:54:50AM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:

Vim is essentially just a one-man project and the maintainer doesn't use
version control system. He just piles "diff -c" -type patches on top of
the previous release and sends them to vim-dev mailing list and to some
FTP site. Then other people try to maintain VCS repositories based on
the patches and resources that are available.

Vim's bus factor: 1

Ah. He should use git. ;)

Thanks for the explanation.

-Peff