Re: A note from the maintainer
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> * IRC and Mailing list
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> When you point at a message in a mailing list archive, using
> gmane is often the easiest to follow by readers, like this:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/27/focus=217
>
> as it also allows people who subscribe to the mailing list as
> gmane newsgroup to "jump to" the article.
Isn't it better to give Message-ID (perhaps with addition to
some archive URLs)? This way one can search his/her own mail
archive; also (I think) all git mail archives support finding
article with given Message-ID (e.g. http://mid.gmane.org/<msg-id>
for GMane).
> * Repositories, branches and documentation.
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> There are four branches in git.git repository that track the
> source tree of git: "master", "maint", "next", and "pu". I may
> add more maintenance branches (e.g. "maint-1.5.3") if we have
> hugely backward incompatible feature updates in the future to keep
> an older release alive; I may not, but the distributed nature of
> git means any volunteer can run a stable-tree like that himself.
What about "offcuts" branch?
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>