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

[Páli Gábor János]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Austin Seipp <aseipp at pobox.com> 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'