patch 8.0.1300: file permissions may end up wrong when writing commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cd142e3369db8888163a511dbe9907bcd138829c Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Nov 16 17:03:45 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.1300: file permissions may end up wrong when writing Problem: File permissions may end up wrong when writing. Solution: Use fchmod() instead of chmod() when possible. Don't truncate until we know we can change the file.

README_src.txt for version 8.0 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.0-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!