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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's the convention for committing bug fixes?
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:17:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140417221705.GB3423@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831twviv38.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi, Eli.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:01:31PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:50:15 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > For bug fixes which should go into both Emacs 24.4 and the trunk, where
> > should they be committed?  Into the 24.4 branch, into the trunk, or into
> > both?

> On the branch.  They are then merged to the trunk.

> > For recent previous releases, the convention was to commit to the
> > release branch and somebody dedicated and energetic copied the commit to
> > the trunk.

> It's still that way.  Of course, you can become one of those dedicated
> and energetic persons yourself, the procedure is in admin/notes/bzr
> (except that it calls the release branch "emacs-23").

Thanks!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-17 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-17 18:50 What's the convention for committing bug fixes? Alan Mackenzie
2014-04-17 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-17 22:17   ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]

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