Re: 7.8 branch is created, HEAD is now open, and a note on merges

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Austin Seipp wrote:

The 7.8 branch is officially ready for RC1 (after some final Haddock bugs got quickly squashed by Gergo and Mateusz.)

Excellent, folks!

Alternatively, simply checking out to the 'ghc-7.8' branch will result in the same thing - no new commits will go in until after RC1:

$ git clone -b ghc-7.8 git://git.haskell.org/ghc ghc-7.8 $ cd ghc-7.8 $ ./sync-all get -b ghc-7.8 --extra --nofib

For some reason, I get this for the last command: == running git clone git://git.haskell.org/libffi-tarballs.git libffi-tarballs -b ghc-7.8 --extra --nofib error: unknown option `extra'