Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)

[Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:57:36AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > I've just backported it to 1.7.9.3 (I'm not keen on living on the bleeding
> > edge with my everyday tools), and it works nicely as expected.
> 
> This topic will be backported in later versions of 1.7.9.x track,
> but living on the maintenance track does not have much smaller
> chance of breakage than living on the tip of 'master' these days,
> unless you are using distro packaged version. The usual rule of
> thumb if you are compiling from the source is that the tip of
> 'master' is more stable than any tagged version, including the
> maintenance track.  See
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/189657/focus=190814
> 
> for details.

I know, but you see I was running on 1.7.2.3. Generally if one version
works for me, I don't upgrade it for a year or two. I've been hit a few
times in the past by some quite annoying bugs (as is to be expected from
any software in the development branch), and lost a lot of time on this.
Rest assured that I don't feel comfortable on 1.7.9 either, that's a big
jump for me but I know that most often it works quite well :-)

Willy