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commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/a02a551e18209423584fcb923e93c6be18f3aa45 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Fri Jun 17 12:48:11 2016 +0200 Updated runtime files.
author Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
date Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:00:06 +0200
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-*starting.txt*  For Vim version 7.4.  Last change: 2016 Jun 12
+*starting.txt*  For Vim version 7.4.  Last change: 2016 Jun 15
 
 
 		  VIM REFERENCE MANUAL    by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -1435,6 +1435,10 @@ always kept.  This is used for:
 - Contents of non-empty registers.
 - The jump list
 - File marks
+The timestamp feature was added before Vim 8.0.  Older versions of Vim,
+starting with 7.4.1131, will keep the items with timestamp, but not use them.
+Thus when using both an older and a newer version of Vim the most recent data
+will be kept.
 
 Notes for Unix:
 - The file protection for the viminfo file will be set to prevent other users