El Thursday 26 March 2015, Christian Brabandt escribió:
> Am 2015-03-25 21:48, schrieb Bram Moolenaar:
> > Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >> @Bram, perhaps it is necessary to split the runtime directory into a
> >> separate
> >> github repository, so they could be easier handled.
> > 
> > How is that easier?  Most users will want just one repo to pull from
> > and
> > rebuild their local Vim, possibly with some local changes.

The runtime directory could be a submodule inside the main repository.
 
> Well, it could be co-maintained, taking burden from you to merge runtime
> file changes,
> or documentation updates and you could concentrate on the code.

Yes, please. It would help to prevent that things like these happen again:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/MszvcBd8p1Q

Compare how this two have evolved:

https://github.com/vim-jp/vim-cpp/commits/master/syntax/cpp.vim
https://github.com/vim/vim/commits/master/runtime/syntax/cpp.vim

I personally have not even thought of contributing to runtime files because of 
this "workflow".

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