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Re: Updating Vim
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: Updating Vim |
Date: |
Wed, 9 Mar 2016 10:39:08 +0100 |
Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
> Our current vim package is 2.5 years old, and the current patch set on top of
> it to bring it up to today is ~1500 patches. Interestingly, every. single.
> commit. is tagged in git, so updating to a more recent release is rather easy.
> This has been one of the things that has kept me using Debian's vim over
> Guix's vim.In this patch I've only updated it to 7.4.963 because that's the
> version Debian is currently shipping (in sid), which is only 3 months old,
> and some of the later versions had issues with the test. This'll bump us
> forward a lot, which is a good starting point.
Interesting.
Both patches look good to me. If I was in nit-picking mode I’d say that
“[source]: Use git-tags for downloading.”
in the commit message is a little confusing because “git-tags” sounds
like a procedure name. I’d just write “[source]: Fetch from git.”.
~~ Ricardo