Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2017, #03; Mon, 10)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 11, 2017, 09:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20170711092548.upb3zessq6kqfhen@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <A334F9D4-E884-4A8F-A0DA-C07214CF9001@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:18:17AM +0200, Lars Schneider wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation! I looked at the Git release calendar [1] and
> realized that 2.14-rc0 is scheduled for this Thursday. My assumption was
> that either on this date 2.14 will be cut from the tip of master or master
> would not change significantly after the rc0 date until the 2.14 release.

Yeah, certainly forking off a 2.14-rc branch would be a reasonable way to do the release management. It just happens to not be the way we do it.

One nice thing about keeping "master" as the stabilizing release-candidate branch is that it encourages more people to run it (versus having people manually switch to building a 2.14-rc branch).

-Peff