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From: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>,
	Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about intended behavior of 'insert-for-yank-1'.
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 14:16:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9eae5d28-92d7-e0f8-8002-6e74f2dd84a4@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837f9om0yt.fsf@gnu.org>

>>> You need to understand the logic behind the instructions in
>>> CONTRIBUTE: the release branch should only get fixes that are either
>>> necessary, or are safe, i.e. cannot possibly break the release.  And
>>> doc changes obviously belong to this latter class.
>>
>> I understand that logic.  However, do you mean s/only/always/ above?
>
> I don't see the difference.  "Only" means "always" in this case.

The two possible meanings are "the release branch should get only 
fixes..." or "only the release branch should get fixes" (which is 
equivalent to "the release branch should get all fixes").

Of course, both can be true (iff).

Davis

-- 
This product is sold by volume, not by mass.  If it appears too dense or 
too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during 
shipping.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-04 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-12  5:17 Question about intended behavior of 'insert-for-yank-1' Karl Fogel
2016-09-12 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-12 17:15   ` Karl Fogel
2016-09-12 18:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-12 22:36       ` Karl Fogel
2016-09-12 22:54         ` Drew Adams
2016-09-12 23:08           ` Karl Fogel
2016-10-03  0:53           ` Karl Fogel
2016-10-03  3:17             ` Noam Postavsky
2016-10-03  6:53               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-03 19:21               ` Karl Fogel
2016-10-03  6:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-03 19:17               ` Karl Fogel
2016-10-04  6:03                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-04 17:40                   ` Karl Fogel
2016-10-04 18:19                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-04 20:16                       ` Davis Herring [this message]
2016-10-04 21:04                       ` Karl Fogel

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