On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 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. > > That sounds handy for people who do not build from the source > themselves. > > Christian, perhaps rev-news can help advertising Dennis's effort to > recruit like-minded souls? Yeah, I had already noticed this thread and now Jakub has mentioned it on: https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/231 so yeah we will advertise it one way or another.