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This repository contains the old source code of Vim. It basically consists of two parts:

• Source Commits from the oldCVS repository at thesourceforge project page
  This contains the history for the releases 5.5 to 6.4 and have been created by usinggit cvsimport (seedocumentation).

• 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:

  • http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/old/
    (v1.14 - v2.8, v4.0 - v4.5)
  • http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/
    (v3.0, v4.6, v5.0 - v5.5)
  • http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/extra/
    (v5.0 - v5.5)

  Those older commits are not the TRUE history.(E.g. commit dates are faked. They are based on the dates fromsrc/version.c orsrc/version.h.)

Initially those two parts were two separate repositories. However they have been merged into a single repository using

git replace --graft 686757e4d2a46c8ab55c08c7a0ccd v5.5git filter-branch v5.5..HEAD

Some tags were updatedmanually.

The following table summarizes the previous release dates according to several sources.

Data has been taken from the

• Vim FAQ
• a youtube video ofBrams presentation on Vim (1:37)
• Wikipedia article onVim
• Announcements in the mailinglistvim-announce(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 thecomp.editors news group
• Date of the release tags in the CVS repository (now available in thevim-ancient repository)
• Date of the release tag in the currentVim repository
• Source code (the date written insrc/version.h orsrc/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'

[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

If you want to see the whole history of Vim in your one local repository, try this:

git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.gitcd vimgit remote add vim-history https://github.com/vim/vim-history.gitgit fetch vim-history --tagsgit replace --graft v7.0001 vim-6-3-004

This virtually connects the tagv7.0001 on top of the tagvim-6-3-004. The development of Vim 7.0 was branched from around Vim 6.3.

• vim-ancient
  This includes the history from v5.5 to v6.4.
  This was converted from the oldCVS repository at sourceforge.

• official repository
  This includes the history from v7.0 to the latest release.