From: Garry Dolley <gdolley@arpnetworks.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:39:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] remove vim syntax highlighting in favor of upstream
Message-ID: <20080924183933.GA30265@garry-thinkpad.arpnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080924175315.GA10337@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:53:15PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> [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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Garry Dolley
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