From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:29:02 GMT
Subject: Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)
Message-ID: <7vboo1sjnl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120312184549.GG12405@1wt.eu>

Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> writes:

> Rest assured that I don't feel comfortable on 1.7.9 either, that's a big
> jump for me but I know that most often it works quite well :-)

It being a big jump is not a problem I can solve, as it is up to you
to deliberately stay behind until you decide to make a big jump.

I can indirectly solve it by not backporting as many fixes to the
maintenance tracks, but I am too nice to be playing that nasty ;-).