Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2018, #01; Mon, 7)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 8, 2018, 00:44 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo9hrnfgj.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BFyj7SCfUbJzfjt==abORdUtfgRRywyjf0V73rDnygHGw@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm actually curious what the "Will merge to 'master'" and "Will merge
> to 'next'" are intended to mean in general.  I thought it meant that
> the topic would be merged the following week barring further
> discussion, but that hasn't always been the case ...

These have always been "eventually in some future", not "next week".

A topic with potentially high impact tends to cook in 'next' longer than a trivial typo fix, so that it has better chance of getting stopped by the community dogfooding of 'next' before getting merged to 'master' and bite the general public.

And the commit-graph thing certainly is a bigger beast I'd feel safer if people tested heavily while it is in 'next' before it hits 'master'.