From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:34:23 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Post 1.6.4 MaintNotes updates X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ae4fdb1d2a8d45bb5b9d990f9ad57a3b4750bc6e;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git Post 1.6.4 MaintNotes updates Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/MaintNotes b/MaintNotes index c477dce2de..8b28c8902e 100644 --- a/MaintNotes +++ b/MaintNotes @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ automate 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-1.5.4") if we have +add more maintenance branches (e.g. "maint-1.6.3") 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 1.6.3 done on May 6th 2009. You +last such release was 1.6.4 done on Jul 29th 2009. 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 1.6.2.5. +release they are updates to; the last such release was 1.6.3.4. New features never go to this branch. This branch is also merged into "master" to propagate the fixes forward.