On Fri, Aug 17 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Usually, I refrain from merging larger topics in 'next' down to > 'master' when we get close to -rc0, but I am wondering if it is > better to merge all of them to 'master', even the ones on the larger > and possibly undercooked side, expecting that we collectively spend > effort on hunting and fixing bugs in them during the pre-release > freeze period. If we were to go that route, I'd want everybody's > buy-in and I'll promise to ignore any shiny new toys that appear on > list that are not regression fixes to topics merged to 'master' > since the end of the previous cycle to make sure people are not > distracted. I'm very much up for this. We have some very useful things (like range-diff and midx) sitting in "next". I think if you merge next down to master now we'll have plenty of time to smoke out bugs & regressions before 2.19.