On 2014-10-08 at 02:13:01 +0200, Carter Schonwald wrote:
the checkout process for the 7.8 branch is a bit involved (and NB: you really want to use a different tree than one for working on head, the checkout process is different )
$ git clone -b ghc-7.8 git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git ghc-7.8TREE $ cd ghc-7.8TREE/ $ ./sync-all get -b ghc-7.8
(theres no need for a lot of this with HEAD)
Just to clarify/remind why this is needed: The GHC 7.8 branch was not converted to a proper submodule-only scheme like GHC HEAD was. Unless we keep maintaining GHC 7.8 for longer than a 7.8.4 release, this irregularity will become less of a concern, as the stable GHC 7.10 branch will be switchable to/from later branches such as GHC 7.12/HEAD w/o requiring a separately cloned tree. However, should GHC 7.8.x turn out to become a LTS-ishly maintained branch, we may want to consider converting it to a similiar Git structure as GHC HEAD currently is, to avoid having to keep two different sets of instructions on the GHC Wiki for how to work on GHC 7.8 vs working on GHC HEAD/7.10 and later. Cheers, hvr