Re: Updating Vim

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> 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