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This is a git repository, which is meant to be an extension to the official Vim from vim.org. It includes various extensions and features that didn't yet get into the official version or even won't ever. Most features had been sent as patches to the Vim mailing list.

See also the Vim patches site.

Documentation: README_gitrepo.txt from the stuff branch

Please note that there is no official support for this from Bram. The patches will most likely work and they appear to do so for several people. However, you might get unlucky and stuff breaks. At worst, you could lose your data. So please be aware of this before going down this road.

Authors of such features are encouraged to develop directly on this repository and push access would gladly be granted. That way more attention will be paid to their features, which will lead to more testers and bug reports to get it stable. This will raise the possibility to get it into the official Vim or at least helps the feature to not get lost as a patch in the mailing list archives.

NOTE: This repository is based on vim_mainline.git, which was originally based on Vim's subversion repository with git-svn, but now uses the official patches for updating. For the sake of cleanness vim_mainline.git and hence vim_extended.git will definitely be completely rewritten some time. Because Vim, including the latest runtime files, is officially available via a Mercurial repository since the beginning of 2010, vim_mainline.git will be discontinued in the near future. The future (if any) of vim_extended in this or another form is not certain yet. Please keep this in mind when using this repository as base for your work.

Maintainer: Markus Heidelberg