From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New sync'd branch Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:17:56 -0400 Message-ID: <87fxbc2963.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <878wh9qaku.fsf@sphinx.net.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251411508 24327 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2009 22:18:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , Dmitry Dzhus , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 28 00:18:20 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MgnIO-0005mQ-N2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:18:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58436 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgnIN-0006Sg-Np for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MgnII-0006SP-1Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:18:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MgnID-0006Ru-Fm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59024 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgnID-0006Rr-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po40.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.103]:36913) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgnI6-0007Ct-Ll; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:17:58 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014244.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.244]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po40.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n7RMHuq0023738 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 38A32C070; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:17:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:52:02 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114704 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > What's the reason to have two branches EMACS_23 and EMACS_23_1_RC? > The latter will be almost entirely unused. Are you holding it in > reserve in case 23.2 is needed at short notice, eg for a security issue? That too, but the main reason is that current trunk code contains code that we want to include in 23.2. Since the trunk is still relatively stable, it's easier to cut a new 23.2 release branch than to backport into EMACS_23_1_RC.