From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 05:08:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: MaintNotes: post 1.5.5 updates X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=97129f0e4991d87e4d25a47938d8ad2a5e29e55c;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git MaintNotes: post 1.5.5 updates --- diff --git a/MaintNotes b/MaintNotes index 9485228b85..797a6fb4e5 100644 --- a/MaintNotes +++ b/MaintNotes @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ with it. Many active members of development community hang around on #git IRC channel on Freenode. Its log is available at: - http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git + http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git The development however is primarily done on the git mailing list (git@vger.kernel.org). If you have patches, please send them to the @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ a task. There are four branches in git.git repository that track the source tree of git: "master", "maint", "next", and "pu". I may -add more maintenance branches (e.g. "maint-1.5.3") if we have +add more maintenance branches (e.g. "maint-1.5.4") if we have hugely backward incompatible feature updates in the future to keep an older release alive; I may not, but the distributed nature of git means any volunteer can run a stable-tree like that herself. @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ but they are not expected to be 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 1.5.4 done on Feb 2nd this year. You +last such release was 1.5.5 done on Apr 7th this year. You can expect that the tip of the "master" branch is always more stable than any of the released versions. @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ from "master" at that point. Obvious, safe and urgent fixes after a feature 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 1.5.4.4. +release they are updates to; the last such release was 1.5.4.5. New features never go to this branch. This branch is also merged into "master" to propagate the fixes forward.