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LukeB_UK on April 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vim 8.0 is coming

It looks like the author takes patch submissions and applies them, rather than pull requests being merged. Detailed in: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

ddevault on April 13, 2016 [–]

Wow, that's pretty lame. No one gets attribution for their work.

maaarghk on April 13, 2016 | [–]

He does put the name of the contributor in the commit message.

ddevault on April 13, 2016 | | [–]

Ah, you're right. I only looked at a few patches in the log:

https://github.com/vim/vim/commits/master

And most of them don't have a name.

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