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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:288169 Archived-At: emacsq writes: > A change in show paren, for example, has some risk, but much less risk > than changes in native compilation, for example. > > People using this lower risk future branch would know they still use a > testing branch, so they would expect occasional hiccups, of course. A feature as low risk as changing a few lines in `shell-resync-dirs' for it to handle whitespace was recently discovered to cause hangs. What would happen with an infinitely larger feature such as the change in show-paren to display offscreen context? > Code committers could tag their commits with some marker like "low > risk" or such if they know their commits can work well as separate > changes and and automatic process could merge these tagged changes > automatically into this low risk future branch. I would want to see such an automatic process. Would you please work on it? That should make it possible to automatically merge emacs-28 to master as well. Thanks.