Re: Freeze is almost here

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> "John Wiegley" <address@hidden>:

> I'm sorry to have created so much confusion, I assumed too much about our
> collective Git habits. Next time I'll "cut once", and it will be frozen from
> that moment forward. I had feared I wouldn't be available to do it at the
> right time, so I did it early, expecting to allow changes from master until
> the cutoff point.

Note that you can branch off from any commit on master after the fact.

Ie. you can look down the history list of master and decide "Ah!
There!", and then do
 git checkout -b emacs-26.1 
<sha1-has-of-the-commit-where-the-branch-should-start>
 git push -u origin HEAD