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SubmittingPatches: use of older maintenance tracks is an exception
authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 05:21:12 +0000 (22:21 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:07:40 +0000 (13:07 -0700)
commit369998df83d779e0b3fc45072be20d43a6559b27
treea3a32a8c170752578c86adde7abd068721ffc6d2
parentf835de52d7c36c278004383919c58457861dac6c
SubmittingPatches: use of older maintenance tracks is an exception

While we could technically fix each and every bug on top of the
commit that introduced it, it is not necessarily practical.  For
trivial and low-value bugfixes, it often is simpler and sufficient
to just fix it in the current maintenance track, leaving the bug
unfixed in the older maintenance tracks.

Demote the "use older maintenance track to fix old bugs" as a side
note, and explain that the choice is used only in exceptional cases.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/SubmittingPatches