MaintNotes: embargoed maintenance releases
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 12, 2022 at 09:55 UTC
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@@ -188,7 +188,9 @@ Whenever a feature release is made, "maint" branch is forked off from
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release are merged to this branch and maintenance releases are cut
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from it. Usually these fixes are merged to the "master" branch first,
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several days before merged to the "maint" branch, to reduce the chance
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-of last-minute issues. The maintenance releases used to be named with
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+of last-minute issues, but things like embargoed security fixes may
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+first appear in the maintenance tracks and merged up to "master" at
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+the same time. The maintenance releases used to be named with
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four dotted decimal, named after the feature release they are updates
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to (e.g. "1.8.5.1" was the first maintenance release for "1.8.5"
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feature release). These days, maintenance releases are named by