Re: [PATCH] rebase docs: drop stray word in merge command description

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi Kyle,
> >
> > On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, Kyle Meyer wrote:
> >
> >> Delete a misplaced word introduced by caafecfcf1 (rebase
> >> --rebase-merges: adjust man page for octopus support, 2018-03-09).
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
> >
> > ACK.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > Too bad this did not make it into v2.20.0, but at least it can make it
> > into a future version.
> 
> The right way to fix it is to prepare a topic that can be merged
> down to the 2.19.x track, and proceed normally to percolate it down
> via 'next', 'master' and 'maint' as any other fixes.  That is
> already happening.
> 
> The original documentation bug is older than where the 2.20 track
> forked; the bug is in 2.19.  Any such old bugs, users have survived
> without it being fixed for a cycle already, and the fix is not that
> urgent to interrupt the release engineering that is already underway
> and redo it.
> 
> A regression that appears only in -rc and a known bug in a new
> feature that appears only in -rc are different matters.  It is
> prudent to always first access how serious they are and we must be
> prepared to even delay the final as necessary.  But I do not think
> this one is.