Hi GHC Devs, 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
Dear Hengcu, Am Donnerstag, den 12.02.2015, 13:52 -0500 schrieb Hengchu Zhang:
I just joined the community and wanted to start contributing/hacking on GHC.
Great, Welcome!
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.
It just means that it was reported by someone with this version, but likely it is still present in the latest version, and that’s where you should fix it. So simply get the current git master, reproduce the bug there and then create a fix. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org
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