I just joined the community and wanted to start contributing/hacking on GHC. I was going through Newcomer's Info tab, and this https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8811 seemed like a good first thing for me to try.

A few questions related to git: from the ticket it looks like this bug happens in 7.6.3. From the repo I checked out, there is a tag ghc-7.6.3-release. But I guess I'm not really supposed to checkout the tag and modify the code from there? But running git branch only shows the master branch.

So should I run ./sync-all checkout ghc-7.6 and modify the code from that branch?

Thank you very much!

Best,

Hengchu