Vim - Tarball with Patches vs Mercurial

[Chris Perl]

Has any consideration ever been given to building the vim port from
mercurial as opposed to grabbing the tarball and applying all of the
necessary patches on top of that?

I'm asking as I saw this thread [1] go by on vim-use.  Apparently,
grabbing the tarball and applying patches doesn't necessarily get you
the most up to date runtime files.  Specifically console vim does not
have a help file for 'sh-embed' but MacVim does.

As for the actual work in the Portfile, if its still necessary to skip
patch 245, you could always try something along the lines of:

  hg log -r v7-3-245 -p | patch -p1 -R

Chris

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/vim_use/tIqxa0fHYoU