Hi, Over the last few weeks I've been going over what options I have regarding the new Vim Mercurial repository. I debated switching to Mercurial for MacVim and how I would move the current MacVim history, etc. Well, after what seems like an eternity spent reading about Git and Mercurial I finally settled on hg-git so that I can keep using Git but still pull from the Mercurial repo.
I've set up a new Vim Git repo at [1] and a MacVim Git repo based on this here [2]. This setup brings a few advantages: - People interested only in Vim development with Git can use [1] without having to pull the MacVim code (I have announced this on vim_dev as well, there is now a link to the Git repo on vim.org) - If anybody develops a new Vim feature (using Git _or_ Mercurial) it is possible to merge their work into a MacVim repo (cloned from [2]) - If somebody thinks I'm too slow at updating the Vim Git repo, they can set up their own and the commit IDs will be identical (see [3]) - GitHub is prettier than repo.or.cz :-) (plus I got requests to move there a while ago) Note that I'm stating that the new MacVim repo is "experimental" -- I may still trash the entire thing and start from scratch even though that is very unlikely (I've done that _many_ times already). Mostly I'm not sure about the branch structure (master points to the hg "default" branch which is based on Vim 7.2 and there is a macvim73 branch that merges against the 7.3 code), which translates to "everything except the master branch may get trashed". However, I will not be updating the old repo anymore unless something unexpected happens (take that as a sign of the new repo not being "too experimental"). I've set up instructions on how to build MacVim using the Vim 7.3 BETA code here [4]. When Bram releases Vim 7.3 I will (hopefully the same day) build a new stable MacVim binary (based on snapshot 52). Björn [1] http://github.com/b4winckler/vim [2] http://github.com/b4winckler/macvim [3] http://wiki.github.com/b4winckler/vim/ [4] http://wiki.github.com/b4winckler/macvim/ -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
