On 30/01/11 11:05 AM, Marc Weber wrote:
Does the current vim.sf.net page tell about existing repositories where
vim patches mature ?
If if they are never merged upstream it would be nice to have a local
place to share them.
I know about a git repository which collects many of them.
Mmm. But last I heard it was kinda about to explode? Or are we talking
about different things? Here's an edited version of an email I sent
recently on this subject:
I notice on the page
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches
at the moment there is a THIS IS GOING TO BREAK SOON notice from Google.
Is there any replacement page somewhere that takes over the role of this
page, or plans for one?
Also, I just went to endeavour to pick up the current variable tabstops
patch, which I believe is in vim_extended:
http://repo.or.cz/w/vim_extended.git
I notice there is mention there that this repository is to be
discontinued. Are there plans for a replacement for this?
I personally think a Mercurial repository based on Vim's official
Mercurial repo would make most sense.
But git also works, though, again, I think it should, via hg-git, be
based on Vim's official repository.
Obviously someone needs to maintain it, pulling from the Vim repo
periodically, and reapplying patches, and coordinating with patch
authors when there are conflicts which aren't easy to resolve, etc.
How do you think about adding a description of this on the download or
development page on vim.sf.net?
I think that would be a good idea. The beauty of DVCS is that anyone can
publish a repo, and if done right, they all link to the official Vim
repo, too, and can be combined and merged by anyone as they like. The
difficulty is knowing where to find these repos, and so something on the
Vim page would be great, whether to a combined repo like vim_extended,
or a longer list of other contributed repos, or a searchable database a
bit like the vim scripts (though hopefully better, and by the way, I
like a bunch of the proposals that you sent a while ago for improving
the vim scripts database).
Ben.
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