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Junio C Hamano
2012-08-19 20:15:33 -07:00
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Subject: A note from the maintainer
Welcome to git development community.
Welcome to the Git development community.
This message is written by the maintainer and talks about how Git
project is managed, and how you can work with it.
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The "master" branch is meant to contain what are very well tested and
ready to be used in a production setting. Every now and then, a "feature
release" is cut from the tip of this branch and they typically are named
with three dotted decimal digits. The last such release was 1.7.11 done on
Jun 17, 2012. You can expect that the tip of the "master" branch is always
with three dotted decimal digits. The last such release was 1.7.12 done on
Aug 19, 2012. You can expect that the tip of the "master" branch is always
more stable than any of the released versions.
Whenever a feature release is made, "maint" branch is forked off from
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release are applied to this branch and maintenance releases are cut from
it. The maintenance releases are named with four dotted decimal, named
after the feature release they are updates to; the last such release was
1.7.11.1. New features never go to this branch. This branch is also
1.7.11.5. New features never go to this branch. This branch is also
merged into "master" to propagate the fixes forward.
A new development does not usually happen on "master". When you send a