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Re: Marking changes to be backported
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Marking changes to be backported |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:09:54 +0300 |
> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 02:37:30 -0400
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> >> There needs to be an agreed convention to mark trunk changes that should
> >> be backported to the release branch at some later date. "Remember to do
> >> it" doesn't scale.
> >
> > If it's really needed, we can have a "emacs-24-next" branch for that.
>
> I think it will be needed if: there are to be pure bug-fix releases, and
> pretesting is going to continue to take months, and development is going
> to continue at the same time. (There are probably tons of things fixed
> in trunk today that should go into version 24.5, if there is one. Who's
> going to dig them all out and backport them? No-one.)
>
> > Then we merge emacs-24 into emacs-24-next, and then we merge
> > emacs-24-next into trunk.
>
> Yet more branches sounds more complicated to me (doesn't that mean you
> need to know when you make a change where it should go?), but I don't
> care about the system so long as there is one.
I think using another (3rd) branch is on balance the most reliable and
least error prone method. It is also much less effort to merge
between branches than to cherry-pick.