On 11/02/09 03:35, Markus Heidelberg wrote: > James Vega, 06.02.2009: >> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:23:33PM +0100, Markus Heidelberg wrote: >>> What do you think about the commit message format, is it ok? I searched >>> for a git-like message, without losing information. The duplicated first >>> line of the problem description is unavoidable I think, because it >>> should be fully automated and the first line shouldn't merely contain >>> the patch number. >> Using 7.2.093 as an example, here's what I use for the upstream branch >> of the Debian repo: >> >> [7.2.093] (extra) dialogs can't always handle multi-byte text > > I decided to discard the (extra) or (after 7.2.xxx) comments in the > summary. But to not lose information, I put this > >> Patch 7.2.093 (extra) > > at the last line. > This isn't very nice, but the summary line will stay below 80 chars with > the automated extraction of the complete first "Problem" line. > > But why this "extra" and the distinction between Unix and non-Unix at all? > > Markus
Because if you are on a Unix-like OS, you can get a functional Vim by omitting everything that's not for Unix, including downloading the extra.tar.gz archive. Currently the source is divided among 3 archives: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.2.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/extra/vim-7.2.extra.tar.gz ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/extra/vim-7.2.lang.tar.gz All three together contain exactly one copy of every 7.2.0 source file, and that's what I recommend downloading regardless of platform, if you want to download Vim and keep it up via ftp (as I do). But IIUC you can omit the extra archive on Unix (if, maybe, you don't use out-of-the-way rarely-used features) (and the lang archive if you want only a strictly en-US version). In that case, "extra" patches would be for files you haven't downloaded. IIUC that's what the RedHat developers do, and that's why the Vim builds they distribute show a number of "missing" numbers in the "Included patches" line of their :version output. Best regards, Tony. -- I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass. -- Barry Goldwater --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
