SubmittingPatches: choice of base for fixing an older maintenance track
When working on an high-value bugfix that must be given to ancient maintenance tracks, a starting point that is older than `maint` may have to be chosen. Helped-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -46,7 +46,12 @@ latest HEAD commit of `maint` or `master` based on the following cases:
* If you are fixing bugs in the released version, use `maint` as the
starting point (which may mean you have to fix things without using
new API features on the cutting edge that recently appeared in
- `master` but were not available in the released version).
+ `master` but were not available in the released version). If the bug
+ exists in an older version (e.g., commit `X` introduced the bug, and
+ `git describe --contains X` says `v2.30.0-rc2-gXXXXXX` has it), then
+ use the tip of the maintenance branch for the 2.30.x versions in the
+ `maint-2.30` branch in https://github.com/gitster/git[the maintainer's
+ repo].
* Otherwise (such as if you are adding new features) use `master`.