From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:25:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Git v2.51.2 on NonStop
Message-ID: <3dad5cb9-976b-4e60-9e6e-05c12c7d9f2d@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqecqk5g7r.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025, at 20:42, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2025, at 18:40, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:
>>>[snip]
>>
>> Would it make sense for maintenance releases to have a small release
>> candidate pre-release?  Both of these maintenance releases have had
>> issues.
>
> Well, that is usually called "the tip of 'master'".  Has NonStop
> been having issues with the tip of 'master'?  For how long?  Why
> haven't we heard about it at all?  After things are merged there
> (which requires them to be cooking in 'next'---oh, has NonStop been
> having issues with 'next'?  For how long?), only fixes are chosen
> and merged to 'maint' to be the next maintenance release.
> ...
> I doubt any pre-release on 'maint' has much value in that anybody who
> are not testing the tip of 'master' would not be testing it either.

You are probably 99.9% likely to be correct.