From: Eric Sunshine Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:25:34 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] git-gui: reduce Tcl version requirement from 8.6 to 8.5 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20200317124902.fitwgrrm6jtv24ec@yadavpratyush.com> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:49 AM Pratyush Yadav wrote: > On 16/03/20 08:48AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I'll pull git-gui updates when Pratyush tells me to, which would > > happen before the final (scheduled on 22nd). I'll trust git-gui > > maintainer's decision to include these changes in it, or to cook > > longer to wait for the 2.27 cycle. [...] > > Honestly, I'd like to cook it a bit longer but the reality is that very > few people, if any, actually track and test my tree. Most people > actually discover bugs when the changes hit a new Git release. Yep, that's the big issue. I track Junio's "next" branch pretty closely but don't track the git-gui repository at all, so it wasn't until Junio pulled from you, and after I pulled from Junio, that I noticed the problem. So, in the longer run, asking Junio to pull more often -- and earlier -- may be a good way forward.