Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/vim: add syntax highlighting file for commits

From: Tom Prince <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:46:40 -0600

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:25:57AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
 
> My point was that there may be many files named gitcommit.vim; the
> directory they appear in under your .vim directory has significance. If
> we add another such file, they will conflict in the flattened namespace
> of contrib/vim.  See below (which also adds the necessary mkdir
> command):
> 

Much clearer. I had glanced at the readme and did
cp commit-syntax.vim ~/.vim/syntax
and it took me a minute or so to figure what was wrong.

  Tom