Basically, some of the vim VCS packages currently provided by the AUR could 
certainly use some merging, yes.

However, this should definitely not, as proposed by this request, be restricted 
to the runtime package, but include at least gvim-git, too.

More importantly, the condition of vim-git has been notoriously problematic:
* The package was introduced broken and remained broken for years
  without anybody bothering.
* My attempt to discuss the problem (as well as to team up) wasn't
  even answered [1].
* When they finally decided to fix the package by adding a split
  package "runtime" providing what was missing before, name
  vim-git-runtime wasn't a good choice. (And again, they could have
  reached out to team up instead.)
* Currently, the package fails to build as it's still using the Git
  protocol to download. Comments asking to change this were ignored
  for years.

That said, this request would prevent me from continuing to maintain 
gvim-runtime-git and vim-runtime-git in favour of vim-git.
I do not think this would really make sense.
So I'd kindly ask you to revoke this request. If you do so, I would take it as 
an opportunity to make another attempt to turn vim-git into a reasonable 
counterpart of vim in extra.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/vim-git#comment-508105

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