On 30 May 2010 20:09, björn wrote: > 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/ >
This post was intended for the vim_mac list. My apologies for sending it to the wrong group. Björn -- 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
