From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 18:16:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix invalid revision error messages for 1.8.3
Message-ID: <CALkWK0mJMUYe1GpGXQ+mw-ZomODuiO5KqbrwgskTMek1O3WexQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk3msnrlf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> People have _already_ seen and lived with these issues in released
> versions.  Changing it may or may not be getting it back to the
> state to that of an even older release, but at that point the
> differences do not matter.  It is a "fix", too late for the kind of
> regression fixes we focus during _this_ -rc period, which is about
> regressions between v1.8.2 and 'master'.

Makes sense.

On a related note, I really wonder why people run anything < master
git; it's so easy to compile and use from ~.  The idea isn't insane at
all: most people run a -p ruby from ~ using things like rbenv (yes, it
compiles from source).

(ofcourse servers have to run a release)