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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Updating Vim
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 10:39:08 +0100
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To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
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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. sing=
le.
> commit. is tagged in git, so updating to a more recent release is rathe=
r easy.
> This has been one of the things that has kept me using Debian's vim ove=
r
> 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 o=
ld,
> and some of the later versions had issues with the test. This'll bump u=
s
> forward a lot, which is a good starting point.

Interesting.

Both patches look good to me.  If I was in nit-picking mode I=E2=80=99d s=
ay that

    =E2=80=9C[source]: Use git-tags for downloading.=E2=80=9D

in the commit message is a little confusing because =E2=80=9Cgit-tags=E2=80=
=9D sounds
like a procedure name.  I=E2=80=99d just write =E2=80=9C[source]: Fetch f=
rom git.=E2=80=9D.

~~ Ricardo