Build Vim Makefile

Copies, and customizes, Makefile script to target path

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• ⬆️ Top of Document

• 🏗️ Requirements

• ⚡ Quick Start

  • 💾 Clone
  • ➕ Install
  • 🔥 Uninstall
  • ⬆️ Upgrade
  • 📑 Documentation

• 🧰 Usage

• 🗒 Notes

• 📈 Contributing

  • 🔱 Forking
  • 💱 Sponsor

• 📇 Attribution

• ⚖️ Licensing

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Requirements

This repository makes use of Git Submodules to track dependencies, to avoid incomplete downloads clone with the --recurse-submodules option...

git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:vim-utilities/build-vim-makefile.git

To update tracked Git Submodules issue the following commands...

git pull

git submodule update --init --merge --recursive

To force upgrade of Git Submodules...

git submodule update --init --merge --recursive --remote

Note, forcing and update of Git Submodule tracked dependencies may cause instabilities and/or merge conflicts; if however everything operates as expected after an update please consider submitting a Pull Request.

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Quick Start

Perhaps as easy as one, 2.0,...

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Clone

Clone this project...

mkdir -vp ~/git/hub/vim-utilities

cd ~/git/hub/vim-utilities

git clone git@github.com:vim-utilities/build-vim-makefile.git

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Install

Install via make install command...

cd ~/git/hub/vim-utilities/build-vim-makefile

make install

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Uninstall

Uninstalled via make uninstall target...

cd ~/git/hub/vim-utilities/build-vim-makefile

make uninstall

... Which will remove script, tab-completion, and documentation symbolic links.

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Upgrade

To update in the future use make upgrade command...

cd ~/git/hub/vim-utilities/build-vim-makefile

make upgrade

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Documentation

After installation, documentation may be accessed via Vim's man command, eg...

man build-vim-makefile

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Usage

Make a directory for Vim new plugin project...

mkdir -p ~/git/hub/vim-utilities/project-name

Run build-vim-makefile script for new project...

build-vim-makefile --path ~/git/hub/vim-utilities/project-name\
                   --author "S0AndS0"\
                   --version "0.0.1"

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Notes

To print available command-line options, along with currently set values, use the --help or -h flag...

build-vim-makefile --path ~/git/hub/vim-utilities/project-name\
                   --author "S0AndS0"\
                   --version "0.0.1"\
                   --help

This repository may not be feature complete and/or fully functional, Pull Requests that add features or fix bugs are certainly welcomed.

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Contributing

Options for contributing to build-vim-makefile and vim-utilities

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Forking

Start making a Fork of this repository to an account that you have write permissions for.

• Add remote for fork URL. The URL syntax is git@github.com:<NAME>/<REPO>.git...

cd ~/git/hub/vim-utilities/build-vim-makefile

git remote add fork git@github.com:<NAME>/build-vim-makefile.git

• Commit your changes and push to your fork, eg. to fix an issue...

cd ~/git/hub/vim-utilities/build-vim-makefile


git commit -F- <<'EOF'
:bug: Fixes #42 Issue


**Edits**


- `<SCRIPT-NAME>` script, fixes some bug reported in issue
EOF


git push fork main

Note, the -u option may be used to set fork as the default remote, eg. git push fork main however, this will also default the fork remote for pulling from too! Meaning that pulling updates from origin must be done explicitly, eg. git pull origin main

• Then on GitHub submit a Pull Request through the Web-UI, the URL syntax is https://github.com/<NAME>/<REPO>/pull/new/<BRANCH>

Note; to decrease the chances of your Pull Request needing modifications before being accepted, please check the dot-github repository for detailed contributing guidelines.

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Sponsor

Thanks for even considering it!

Via Liberapay you may on a repeating basis.

Regardless of if you're able to financially support projects such as build-vim-makefile that vim-utilities maintains, please consider sharing projects that are useful with others, because one of the goals of maintaining Open Source repositories is to provide value to the community.

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Attribution

• GitHub -- github-utilities/make-readme

• StackOverflow -- How do I check if file exists in Makefile so I can delete it

• StackOverflow -- How to have config option in Makefile

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License

Copies, and customizes, Makefile script to target path
Copyright (C) 2020 S0AndS0

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

For further details review full length version of AGPL-3.0 License.