Re: [RFC] should these two topics graduate to 'master' soon?

> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:51:49AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>> > * jc/merge-drop-old-syntax (2015-04-29) 1 commit
>> >
>> >   This topic stops "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>" syntax that
>> >   has been deprecated since October 2007 (and we have issued a
>> >   warning message since around v2.5.0 when the ancient syntax was
>> >   used).
>> >
>> > * jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo-final (2016-10-26) 1 commit
>> >
>> >   This is the endgame of the topic to avoid blindly falling back to
>> >   ".git" when the setup sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository.
>> >   A corner case that happens to work right now may be broken by a call
>> >   to die("BUG").
>> >
>> > I am leaning toward including the former in the upcoming release,
>> > whose -rc0 is tentatively scheduled to happen on Apr 20th.  I think
>> > the rest of the system is also ready for the latter (back when we
>> > merged it to 'next' and started cooking, there were still a few
>> > codepaths that triggered its die(), which have been fixed).
>> >
>> > Opinions?
>> 
>> Google has been running with both of these for a while.  Any problems
>> we ran into were already reported and fixed.  I would be all for
>> including them in the next release.
>
> Thanks, I was wondering how much exposure the latter got. It might be a
> good idea to merge it to "master" early in the post-2.13 cycle to get a
> little more exposure (since the point of it is really to flush out
> unusual cases, the more people run it before we make a release the
> better). But I'm also OK if it's merged to master this cycle, as long as
> it's soon-ish. It's much better to flush out problems in pre-release
> master than in a released version.