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Very very old history of Vim (from v1.14 to v6.4)
https://github.com/vim/vim-history
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Very very old history of Vim (from v1.14 to v6.4)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/vim/vim-history
- Owner: vim
- Created: 2018-09-06T08:42:11.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-24T07:29:22.000Z (2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-21T19:07:43.322Z (10 days ago)
- Topics: vim
- Language: C
- Homepage:
- Size: 18.8 MB
- Stars: 135
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 14
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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Vim-history
-----------
This repository contains the old source code of Vim. It basically consists of two parts:
* Source Commits from the old [CVS repository][1] at the [sourceforge project page][2]
This contains the history for the releases 5.5 to 6.4 and have been created by using `git cvsimport` (see [documentation][3]).
* Commits for the even older releases from releases 1.14 until 5.5
Those commits have been created from the tarballs at the Vim FTP site:
*
(v1.14 - v2.8, v4.0 - v4.5)
*
(v3.0, v4.6, v5.0 - v5.5)
*
(v5.0 - v5.5)
Those older commits are not the TRUE history.
(E.g. commit dates are faked. They are based on the dates from `src/version.c` or `src/version.h`.)
Initially those two parts were two separate repositories. However they have been merged into a single repository using
```bash
git replace --graft 686757e4d2a46c8ab55c08c7a0ccd v5.5
git filter-branch v5.5..HEAD
```
Some tags were updated [manually][11].
Release History
---------------
The following table summarizes the previous release dates according to several sources.
Data has been taken from the
* [Vim FAQ][4]
* a youtube video of [Brams presentation on Vim][5] (1:37)
* Wikipedia article on [Vim][6]
* Announcements in the mailinglist [vim-announce][9](Note: Yahoo decided to shut down the Yahoo Groups archive on December 15th, 2020. But, the list may still contain (now some) invalid deep-links, that are not available in other archives :( )
* Announcements in the [comp.editors][12] news group
* Date of the release tags in the CVS repository (now available in the [vim-ancient repository][7])
* Date of the release tag in the current [Vim repository][8]
* Source code (the date written in `src/version.h` or `src/version.c`) E.g.
```
$ git show v8.1.0000:src/version.h | grep '#define VIM_VERSION_LONG\>'
$ git show v4.6:src/version.c | grep '\*longVersion'
```
Version | [vim-faq][10] | [video][5] | [Wikipedia][6] | [Announcements][9],
[comp.editors][12] | [Tags current][8],
[Tags old][7] | Source code
|----|----------------------|--------|------------------|--------------------|---------|-------------
9.1 | 2nd January, 2024 | | Jan 02 | [Jan 02][72] | Jan 02 | [Jan 02][73]
9.0 | 28th June, 2022 | | Jun 28 | [Jun 28][70] | Jun 28 | [Jun 28][71]
8.2 | 12th December, 2019 | | Dec 13 | [Dec 12][68] | Dec 12 | [Dec 12][69]
8.1 | 17th May, 2018 | | May 18 | [May 17][38] | May 17 | [May 17][39]
8.0 | 12th September, 2016 | Sep 12 | Sep 12 | [Sep 12][37] | Sep 12 | [Sep 12][40]
7.4 | 10th August, 2013 | | Aug 10 | [Aug 10][36] | Aug 10 | [Aug 10][41]
7.3 | 15th August, 2010 | | Aug 15 | [Aug 15][35] | Aug 15 | [Aug 15][42]
7.2 | 9th August, 2008 | | Aug 9 | [Aug 9][34] | Aug 9 | [Aug 9][43]
7.1 | 12th May, 2007 | | May 12 | [May 12][33] | May 12 | [May 12][44]
7.0 | 8th May, 2006 | May 8 | May 7 | [May 8][32] | May 7 | [May 7][45]
6.4 | 15th October, 2005 | | Oct 15 | [Oct 15][31] | Oct 15 | [Oct 15][46]
6.3 | 8th June 2004 | | June 7 | [June 8][30] | June 8 | [June 7][47]
6.2 | 1st June 2003 | | June 1 | [June 1][29] | June 2 | [Jun 1][48]
6.1 | 24th March 2002 | | Mar 24 | [Mar 24][28] | Mar 25 | [Mar 24][49]
6.0 | 27th September, 2001 | Sep 27 | Sep 26 | [Sep 27][27] | Sep 27 | [Sep 26][50]
5.8 | 31st May, 2001 | | May 31 | [May 31][26] | June 5 | [May 31][51]
5.7 | 24th June, 2000 | | June 24 | [June 24][25] | June 24 | [Jun 24][52]
5.6 | 16th January, 2000 | | Jan 16 | [Jan 16][24] | Jan 17 | [Jan 16][53]
5.5 | 21st September, 1999 | | Sep 19 | [Sep 21][23] | | [Sep 19][54]
5.4 | 26th July, 1999 | | July 25 | [July 26][22] | | [Jul 25][55]
5.3 | 31st August, 1998 | | Aug 31 | [Aug 31][21] | | [Aug 30][56]
5.2 | 24th August, 1998 | | **Apr 27** \[1\] | [Aug 24][20] | | [Aug 23][57]
5.1 | 7th April, 1998 | | Apr 6 | [Apr 7][19] | | [Apr 7][58]
5.0 | 19th February, 1998 | Feb 28 | Feb 19 | [Feb 19][18] | | [Feb 19][59]
4.6 | 13th March, 1997 | | | [Mar 13][17] | | [Mar 13][60]
4.5 | 17th October, 1996 | | | [Oct 17][13] | | [Oct 12][61]
4.2 | 5th July, 1996 | | | [Jun 21][14] | | [June 17][62]
4.0 | 21st May, 1996 | May 29 | May 29 | | | [May 29][63]
3.0 | 16th August, 1994 | Aug 12 | Aug 12 | [Sep 7][15] \[2\] | | [Aug 12][64]
2.0 | 21st December, 1993 | Dec 21 | Dec 14 | [Dec 31][16] \[2\] | | [Dec 14][65]
1.27 | 23rd April, 1993 | Apr 23 | | | | [April 6][66]
1.24 | | | | | | [5 Jan 1993][67]
1.17 | 21st April, 1992 | | | | |
1.14 | 2nd November, 1991 | Nov 2 | | | |
\[1\]: I think it is an error in the wikipedia page and very unlikely, that Vim 5.2 was released just 20 days after 5.1
\[2\]: Announced by Darren Hiebert
Merge the whole history
-----------------------
If you want to see the whole history of Vim in your one local repository, try this:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim
git remote add vim-history https://github.com/vim/vim-history.git
git fetch vim-history --tags
git replace --graft v7.0001 vim-6-3-004
```
This virtually connects the tag `v7.0001` on top of the tag `vim-6-3-004`. The development of Vim 7.0 was branched from around Vim 6.3.
Other repositories
------------------
* [vim-ancient][7]
This includes the history from v5.5 to v6.4.
This was converted from the old [CVS][1] repository at sourceforge.
* [official repository][8]
This includes the history from v7.0 to the latest release.
[1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/vim/cvs/
[2]: https://sourceforge.net/p/vim/
[3]: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/CVS/
[4]: https://github.com/chrisbra/vim_faq
[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayc_qpB-93o
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)#History
[7]: https://bitbucket.org/vim-mirror/vim-ancient
[8]: https://github.com/vim/vim
[9]: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce
[10]: http://vimhelp.appspot.com/vim_faq.txt.html#faq-3.1
[11]: https://github.com/chrisbra/vim_faq/issues/8#issuecomment-419605586
[12]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.editors
[13]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.editors/myQlVk5RvEQ/5yk_g2GM9EEJ
[14]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.editors/GjdHci-xBSw/Iq3kSrDJ36QJ
[15]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.editors/iSbQgMlWweU/bbPMSBcCkUsJ
[16]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.editors/9snlhebqQiA/KOi0VsDXUzYJ
[17]: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/vimannounce/conversations/messages/10
[18]: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/vimannounce/conversations/messages/26
[19]: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/vimannounce/conversations/messages/30
[20]: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/vimannounce/conversations/messages/34
[21]: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/vimannounce/conversations/messages/35
[22]: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/vimannounce/conversations/messages/49
[23]: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/vimannounce/conversations/messages/53
[24]: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/vimannounce/conversations/messages/59
[25]: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/vimannounce/conversations/messages/69
[26]: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/vimannounce/conversations/messages/78
[27]: https://marc.info/?l=vim-announce&m=100162358817820
[28]: https://marc.info/?l=vim-announce&m=101698978011550
[29]: https://marc.info/?l=vim-announce&m=105448853109795
[30]: https://marc.info/?l=vim-announce&m=108667819706438
[31]: https://marc.info/?l=vim-announce&m=112939369421105
[32]: https://marc.info/?l=vim-announce&m=114708043011893
[33]: https://marc.info/?l=vim-announce&m=117898675109914
[34]: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/LIlnHdkogS8/m/NskH0S8-8NEJ
[35]: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/ZsAu_RUjVUs/m/wrLPfs0dJeIJ
[36]: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/knOQ_t_H5to/m/STMi8d25ii8J
[37]: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/EKTuhjF3ET0/m/cP1JQcZ4AwAJ
[38]: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/K1lBxTJb73Y/m/xVnQDQSsAgAJ
[39]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/v8.1.0000/src/version.h#L39
[40]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/v8.0.0000/src/version.h#L39
[41]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/v7.4/src/version.h#L39
[42]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/v7.3/src/version.h#L39
[43]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/v7.2/src/version.h#L39
[44]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/v7.1/src/version.h#L39
[45]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/v7.0/src/version.h#L39
[46]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/vim-6-4/src/version.h#L39
[47]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/vim-6-3/src/version.h#L39
[48]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/vim-6-2/src/version.h#L39
[49]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/vim-6-1/src/version.h#L39
[50]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/vim-6-0/src/version.h#L39
[51]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/vim-5-8-000/src/version.h#L37
[52]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/vim-5-7/src/version.h#L37
[53]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/vim-5-6/src/version.h#L34
[54]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v5.5/src/version.h#L34
[55]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v5.4/src/version.h#L34
[56]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v5.3/src/version.h#L31
[57]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v5.2/src/version.h#L31
[58]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v5.1/src/version.h#L31
[59]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v5.0/src/version.h#L31
[60]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v4.6/src/version.c#L527
[61]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v4.5/src/version.c#L342
[62]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v4.2/src/version.c#L140
[63]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v4.0/src/version.c#L28
[64]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v3.0/src/version.c#L277
[65]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v2.0/src/version.c#L277
[66]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v1.27/src/version.c#L253
[67]: https://github.com/vim/vim-history/blob/v1.24/src/version.c#L200
[68]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_announce/KPqcD9MYiMk/T11rMwO1AAAJ
[69]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/v8.2.0/src/version.h#L39
[70]: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/f_-N3hYxK20
[71]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/v9.0.0000/src/version.h#L23
[72]: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/l8rDdV6lTXs
[73]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/v9.1.0000/src/version.h#L23