RE: Why not commit runtime files?

2006-10-12 Thread Suresh Govindachar
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Suresh Govindachar wrote: Hello, I have just found out that while the runtime directory is periodically updated on the ftp site, it is not committed to the cvs repository. What is the reason for not committing runtime files into cvs? I see

Re: Why not commit runtime files?

2006-10-12 Thread David Brown
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: I see some comment about runtime files not having patches; but committing to cvs does not require creating a patch; one can just command cvs to commit a local directory to the repository. I don't know exactly; but I think the various repositories (rsync, FTP, CVS,

Re: Why not commit runtime files?

2006-10-12 Thread Mikolaj Machowski
I don't know exactly; but I think the various repositories (rsync, FTP, CVS, SVN) are not maintained by the same people. I think CVS and SVN use the FTP site as a master with automated updates (but not every day), so that the FTP updates trickle down to the CVS/SVN repositories after a delay

Re: Why not commit runtime files?

2006-10-12 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
David Brown wrote: [...] I had the same kind of problem when maintaining CVS for vim 6. I tried updating the runtime files, and would occasionally get a patch that wouldn't apply, because something did get patched in a runtime file. Dave Yeah. Nowadays I rsync my runtime files from time to