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

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

SZEDER GGGbor <szeder@ira.uka.de> wrote:
> 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)
> 
> Furthermore, vim 7.2 also provides syntax highlighting for
> other git filetypes (gitconfig, rebase, send-email).
> 
> This patch gets rid of our local version and just points
> interested parties to the upstream version.
> 
> The code for auto-detecting filetypes is taken from vim 7.2's
> runtime/filetype.vim.
> 
> ---
>  contrib/vim/README               |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  contrib/vim/syntax/gitcommit.vim |   18 ------------------
>  2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 contrib/vim/syntax/gitcommit.vim

Missing SBO line?
 
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Shawn.