Marc Weber wrote:

[...]

> If there is no alternative, would other people join and help maintaining
> a git based mirror? Bram, would you even eventually consider looking
> there for most up to date patches? We could still announce them on the
> mailinglist.

I have two important reasons to want patches to be emailed to me as a
diff:

1. It shows explicit intent to have the patches included with Vim.  When
I download something from the internet I have no idea about copyright or
even who wrote it.  It would require going the way of having the author
or authors sign a form (on paper, email won't do!).  That gets messy.

2. With an emailed diff we both know (the sender and I) what I'm
including exactly.  When pulling from some repository I never know what
state the change is in.  I sometimes get an email with "try now", but
it's not clear what "now" is.

The current method worked very well for me, I don't see a reason to
change.

Note that if people want to distribute (experimental) patches to share
with other users, then using something like github works very well.


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