From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation on git branches... Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 21:43:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83pogikco2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170411135803.6097a343@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1491936259 8159 195.159.176.226 (11 Apr 2017 18:44:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:44:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 11 20:44:16 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cy0lz-00021p-2s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:44:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40651 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cy0m5-0000rC-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:44:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cy0lX-0000r4-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:43:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cy0lP-0001eu-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:43:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60429) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cy0lP-0001eq-2H; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:43:39 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2166 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cy0lM-0001Dg-CU; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:43:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170411135803.6097a343@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:213884 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:58:03 -0400 > From: "Perry E. Metzger" > > Howdy! Noticed that the top level of the Emacs repo has no files that > mention which branches are currently used for development and how. Not sure why you say that, because I see it mentioned under "Branches". What exactly is missing from that text? > It might be nice to explain the distinction between the emacs-25 > branch and master in "CONTRIBUTE" -- a sentence or two would be > enough. Emacs-25 is a release branch, and that is described in CONTRIBUTE. Once again, please elaborate about what's missing in your opinion.