The reason it works is that we never apply patches to a stable branch. All
patches must come from maste; hence by implication they will always be
carried forward. We've never had a problem with this approach.
On Tue, 30 May 2017, Brian Bockelman wrote:
> :) Maybe we work on a mutually-exclusive set of projects? Most of the ones I work on merge release branches through master as a mechanism to make sure patches in the stable series make it into the master branch.
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> Regardless - I don't care too much provided we can have a written policy for branching and tagging that I can code against to provide the two items above.
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