Re: [RFC] should these two topics graduate to 'master' soon?

> There are two topics that are marked as "Will cook in 'next'" for
> practically forever in the "What's cooking" reports.  The world may
> have become ready for one or both of them, in which case we should
> do the merge not too late in the cycle.
>
> * jc/merge-drop-old-syntax (2015-04-29) 1 commit
>
>   This topic stops "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>" syntax that
>   has been deprecated since October 2007 (and we have issued a
>   warning message since around v2.5.0 when the ancient syntax was
>   used).
>
> * jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo-final (2016-10-26) 1 commit
>
>   This is the endgame of the topic to avoid blindly falling back to
>   ".git" when the setup sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository.
>   A corner case that happens to work right now may be broken by a call
>   to die("BUG").
>
> I am leaning toward including the former in the upcoming release,
> whose -rc0 is tentatively scheduled to happen on Apr 20th.  I think
> the rest of the system is also ready for the latter (back when we
> merged it to 'next' and started cooking, there were still a few
> codepaths that triggered its die(), which have been fixed).
>
> Opinions?