On Apr 10, 2014 4:16 PM, "Peter Aronoff" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu Apr 04/10/14 at 1:58, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > > If you don't need the history or beeing able to take part in the > > development of the plugins I suggest you instead of fetching the git > > repository just fetch a tarball of the worktree. > > > > Or you could just use the --depth option with git clone. > > One big advantage of git over tarballs for me is that it's easier to script > a vim setup if you're just cloning repos. Far fewer steps than downloading > the tarballs, unpacking them, removing them, etc. Also, updating is much > easier with git.
You should try vim-addon-manager. It has no problems with tar- or vimballs. Adding a (known!) git plugin is just as many steps as adding the tarball plugin (assuming tarball is downloaded from www.vim.org). It also uses --depth=1 by default. > > So for my money `git clone --depth=1` is easier. Now that you can fetch > from these "shallow" repos, it's also easy to update them (use --depth=1 > again when pulling). I had never thought of this option before. Thanks for > the tip. > > Best, Peter > -- > We have not been faced with the need to satisfy someone else's > requirements, and for this freedom we are grateful. > Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, The UNIX Time-Sharing System > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
