anything major, and more importantly quickly and trivially fixable. 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 1.7.0 done on Feb 12, 2010. You can expect that the tip of
+release was 1.7.2 done on Jul 21, 2010. You can expect that the tip of
the "master" branch is always more stable than any of the released
versions.
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
-1.6.6.2. New features never go to this branch. This branch is also
+1.7.1.1. New features never go to this branch. This branch is also
merged into "master" to propagate the fixes forward.
A trivial and safe enhancement goes directly on top of "master". A new
- Linus on general design issues.
- Linus, Shawn Pearce, Johannes Schindelin, Nicolas Pitre, René
- Scharfe, Jeff King and Johannes Sixt on general implementation
- issues.
+ Scharfe, Jeff King, Jonathan Nieder, Johan Herland, Johannes Sixt,
+ and Sverre Rabbelier on general implementation issues and reviews
+ on the mailing list.
- Shawn and Nicolas Pitre on pack issues.