On 18/05/08 07:10, Yakov Lerner wrote:
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>
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:59 PM, John Calixto
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Could somebody please explain the Vim source repos to me?
>
> There seems to be activity in both the CVS and SVN repos - which one is
> The Authoritative Vim Repository?
>
> How do merges occur? Who is responsible for merging them?
>
> Are there specific purposes for each repo?
>
>
> There are no merges. CVS and SVN stay in sync. CVS being updated first, and
> CVN follows CVS updates in short time.
>
> Originally, only CVS repo existed. Sourceforge, where CVS is hosted, had big
> problems with stability and slowness of CVS in the past, I do not know
> if SVN is better now, I switched to SVN mirror.
>
> SVN repo was created by a volunteer to mirror the CVS repo.
> SVN mirrors CVS. SVN server is more stable than CVS, but SVN
> gets updates several minutes or hours later than CVS.
>
> Patches and vim sources originate from Bram Moolenaar, author and
> maintainer of vim.
> Bram calls himself "vim dictator". Development model has "star structure:"
> People contribute matches/emails to Bram, but all checkins originate
> from Bram.
>
> Bram issues patches in 3 forms simultaneously:
> 1) he emails patches to vim-dev mailing list
> 2) he uploads patchfiles to http://ftp.home.vim.org/vim/patches/VERSION,
> new versions as tarballs to http://ftp.home.vim.org/vim
> 3) he checks in CVS
>
> SVN gets same checkins as CVS, except that SVN is managed and fed by
> Edward L.Fox, not by Bram directly.
> Patches are sequentially numbered, and SVN stays in sync with CVS.
>
> From time to time, Bram uploads full tarballs to
> http://ftp.home.vim.org/vim.
>
> Yakov
Note that ftp.home.vim.org is synonymous to ftp.vim.org (192.87.102.43),
and takes longer to type. ;-)
Best regards,
Tony.
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