Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Re: git mirror of all vim scripts

On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Scott Bronson wrote:

Just a quick announcement: I packaged all the vim scripts into git repos and made them available via github:

   http://github.com/vim-scripts


Thanks so much for doing this.  Those of us living in 2010 and using version control love you.

I added an issue on GitHub about forking, which I know you've seen.  It's not an easy problem but I think it would be a nice sign of respect to script authors to fork their repos instead of just mirroring flat files.

That introduces another interesting question.  The mirroring of flat files has a nice side effect: you only get updates when a maintainer manually uploads a new version.  Forking would mean that updates give you the bleeding-edge version, which might not be what you want.  I'm not sure what to do in this case.

If I wrote a small script to make/update a BitBucket mirror of each of the packages for us Mercurial users (using hg-git), would you be interested? If not, I might just write/maintain it myself. :)

My intent is to make them easy to use with Pathogen -- just clone into ~/.vim/bundles and everything just works.

Right now I'm updating the mirror once a day.   If everything continues looking stable I'll set it to update it every 20 minutes.

Definitely tell me if you see breakage anywhere!

     - Scott


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