On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 23:18 -0500, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:11:11PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > So I dunno. I could really go either way on it. Feel free to drop it, or > > > even move it into a separate topic to be cooked longer. > > > > If it were 5 years ago, it would have been different, but I do not > > think cooking it longer in 'next' would smoke out breakages in > > obscure scripts any longer. Git is used by too many people who have > > never seen its source these days. > > Yeah, I have noticed that, too. I wonder if it would be interesting to > cut "weeklies" or something of "master" or even "next" that people could > install with a single click. > > Of course it's not like we have a binary installer in the first place, > so I guess that's a prerequisite.
I provide daily[*] snapshots of git's master and next tree as packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and CentOS on launchpad and SuSE's openbuildservice. If there's sufficient interest in this (I know of only a few users), I can try to put more effort into this. -- Dennis Kaarsemaker http://www.kaarsemaker.net [*]When the tooling isn't broken for some reason.
