From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Marking changes to be backported
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:25:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvegulnxnr.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w2wq8dael1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 06 Oct 2014 02:37:30 -0400")
> Yet more branches sounds more complicated to me (doesn't that mean you
> need to know when you make a change where it should go?),
One way or another, someone will have to decide which change goes "in
the current pretest" (let's call it 24.4), "in the next bug-fix" (let's
call it 24.5), or "longer term" (let's call it 25.1).
If the committer knows before committing where that change should go,
then having 3 branches and committing to the proper branch is the
best solution.
If that's not the case, then having 3 branches doesn't help, indeed,
since the commit will have to be backported to the proper branch, if
applicable. Note that this "backporting" will take place regardless of
whether we have 3 branches active at a time or not. Having 3 branches
active at a time, does allow the backporting to be done any time you
want, whereas sticking to the "trunk vs emacs-24" scheme we have simply
means that some of the backporting will only take place once the
"emacs-24" branch is changed from "branch for 24.4" to "branch for
24.5".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-06 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-02 5:48 bug#18600: 24.3.94; EWW fails to check https certificates Mark H Weaver
2014-10-03 23:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-03 23:44 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-04 21:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-04 23:24 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-10-05 2:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-05 2:38 ` Marking changes to be backported Glenn Morris
2014-10-05 16:46 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-06 1:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-06 6:37 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-06 13:25 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-10-06 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-06 18:49 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-06 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-06 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-05 17:17 ` bug#18600: 24.3.94; EWW fails to check https certificates Mark H Weaver
2014-10-05 2:16 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-23 17:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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