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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-11-14 13:52:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-11-14 13:52:34 +0200 |
| commit | ca947054e25fbc11bf8783166153567dcafdbe6c (patch) | |
| tree | 2c4ef8cb84dc30c64de11b53b5db95b3fb702caf /CONTRIBUTE | |
| parent | f234fc2cb319de1e5e2eca1a84450ec220ce7955 (diff) | |
* CONTRIBUTE (Branches): Improve wording for back-ported commits.
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| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTE | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index 2aae251ce4..8c87df8941 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -193,10 +193,12 @@ branch later. However, if you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the trunk (eg because the trunk code has changed a lot), you can apply the -change to both trunk and branch yourself. Indicate in the release -branch commit log that there is no need to merge the commit to the -trunk; start the commit message with "Backport:". gitmerge.el will -then exclude that commit from the merge to trunk. +change to both trunk and branch yourself. It could also happen that a +change is cherry-picked from master to the release branch, and so +doesn't need to be merged back. In these cases, indicate in the +release branch commit log that there is no need to merge the commit to +the trunk; start the commit message with "Backport:". gitmerge.el +will then exclude that commit from the merge to trunk. ** Other process information |