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Re: [RFC/PATCH] remove vim syntax highlighting in favor of upstream

From
Garry Dolley <gdolley@arpnetworks.com>
Date
Sep 24, 2008, 18:39 UTC
Message-ID
<20080924183933.GA30265@garry-thinkpad.arpnetworks.com>
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<20080924175315.GA10337@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:53:15PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> [Tim Pope cc'd as the author of the official version. Tim: just an FYI,
> but if you have any comments, please feel free to share]
> 
> [Shawn cc'd as the interim maintainer. I, for one, welcome our
> new Java-programming overlords].
> 
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:01:54PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> 
> > > Is there any objection to simply removing it (and probably replacing it
> > > with a note to go look at the official highlighting file)?
> > I'm for it, because I didn't know that there is an official git syntax
> > highlight file out there.  Indeed, I haven't even know that vim 7.2 is
> > out.
> 
> Here is a patch, then. Shawn, we should probably give any vim users a
> few days to object in case there is something they don't like about the
> upstream version, but other than that, I think this should be applied to
> master.

As a Vim user, I think removing the syntax file, and giving a reference to the official one, is fine.

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Message 6 of 14 in “vim syntax: highlight the diff in commit message template”
  1. vim syntax: highlight the diff in commit message templateSZEDER Gábor, Sep 24, 2008
  2. Jeff KingSep 24, 2008
  3. SZEDER GáborSep 24, 2008
  4. remove vim syntax highlighting in favor of upstreamJeff King, Sep 24, 2008
  5. Shawn O. PearceSep 24, 2008
  6. Garry DolleySep 24, 2008
  7. SZEDER GáborSep 24, 2008
  8. Jeff KingSep 24, 2008
  9. SZEDER GáborSep 25, 2008
  10. Bob HiestandSep 25, 2008
  11. Shawn O. PearceSep 29, 2008
  12. remove vim syntax highlighting in favor of upstreamSZEDER Gábor, Sep 29, 2008
  13. Jeff KingSep 29, 2008
  14. Michael J GruberSep 30, 2008

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