It seems to me that others often did preparatory work on the patches that he committed. For example: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/c12e4eecbb26cedca96e0810

It seems to me that others often did preparatory work on the patches that he committed. For example: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/c12e4eecbb26cedca96e0810d3501043356eebaa https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/c12e4eecbb26cedca96e0810d3... https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/12553 https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/12553