Christian MICHON, 30.06.2008: > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Tony Mechelynck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem with patches is bit-rot. Scripts will usually remain valid, > > even when unattended; patches must be cared for, or after some time they > > won't apply anymore. > > > > you can avoid bitrotting provided you can rebase your patches with a > tracked upstream (Bram's repo).
It depends on the amount of changes in the patch and in upstream. The relativenumber stuff for example didn't cost many maintenance effort. Between 7.1.258 (initial patch) and 7.1.330 every change did merge automatically, also a backport to 7.1.0 worked without intervention. The patch from 7.1.258 still applies to 7.1.330 with some "Hunk succeeded" messages. Just the transition to 7.2a led to conflicts in some runtime files. Markus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
