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

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> [Shawn cc'd as the interim maintainer. I, for one, welcome our
> new Java-programming overlords].

Heh.
 
> 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.

Thanks.  Its queued in my pile of patches waiting for ACKs and/or
comments before I actually apply them to my tree.  I'll let it sit
for a little, but I think we want to apply it.

> -- >8 --
> remove vim syntax highlighting in favor of upstream
> 
> As of version 7.2, vim ships with its own syntax
> highlighting for git commit messages, which is:
> 
>   1. more comprehensive in splitting up the various
>      components of the file
> 
>   2. in accordance with the usual vim behavior for syntax
>      highlighting (e.g., respecting b:current_syntax)
> 
>   3. presumably better maintained (I have not been using
>      what's in git's contrib/ directory for some time in
>      favor of the upstream version)
> 
> This patch gets rid of our local version and just points
> interested parties to the upstream version.

-- 
Shawn.