Excerpts from Ryan J M's message of Sun Jul 19 16:45:16 +0200 2009: > There might be two reasons that I thought git repo is inconvenience > 1) not all vimmers have git installed on their boxes. > 2) comparing to gzip-ed or bzip-ed files, it might take more time to > download via git.
Ryan, thank you for your interest! 1) You can export to patches easily. Hosting sites such as github.com do create compressed archives (.zip and .tar.gz or such) on the fly. Basically it's as much work as running $ git show $REV > patch 2) using git you can fetch the latest rev only by using git clone --depth 1 $git_source as git compresses data it won't take that much longer. benefits: You can use git pull to get newest patches. compare this to: - open browser to go to www.vim.org -> downloads -> .. - run patch -p1 (still no easy way to distribute your changes other people can follow!) To distribute your changes just pick an mirror and do git push. git has more benefits: You can automate sending patches to mailinglists, you can create RSS feeds etc. I don't want to branch Vim at this point in time. All I want is making it easy to distribute ideas and extensions so that they can be explored and tested. Whether such extensions will be integrated into mainline vim or not is another topic. Marc Weber --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
