Re: minor bzr->git changes missed

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:11:27 -0500
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > > Ah. My confusion was that I thought your message asked him to
> > > commit *only* to the branch.
> > 
> > That's indeed what I said.  These changes will be later merged to
> > master, so no need to commit twice.
> 
> Out of curiosity, how is that handled? That is, when a bug is fixed
> on the branch, does one immediately merge that fix to master, or does
> that happen at some fixed interval, or does something else happen?

Some Helpful Soul (TM) does that whenever they like.

Also, sometimes people who need to make a change on master that
depends on some bugfix on the branch do the merge because they need
it.

In general, everybody with write access are encoraged to do these
merges when they have a moment.