From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 20:45:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug report: git clone with dest
Message-ID: <xmqqmv1savcg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180105195705.GA5217@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Out of curiosity, did this change at some point? I thought the process
> used to be to merge to maint, and then pick up topics in master by
> merging maint to master.

If you look at "Sync with maint" merges made to 'master', you'd
notice that most of them are only updating Documentation/RelNotes/*
and otherwise no-effect merges, simply because when such an up-merge
is made, everything in 'maint' is already in 'master' because topics
are merged to the latter first.  Security fixes that go through
embargoes are excempt for obvious reasons ;-)

I do not recall how it was before 2012.