On Sunday, 29 July 2012 at 11:43:41 UTC, Robert Clipsham wrote:
4. You can pull regression/bug fixes into the release branch
Just to clarify: »Pulling« in this context means cherry-picking individual bug fixes critical for the release from the main branch. Virtually all changes and pull requests still go on the main branch first, and are then »backported« onto the release branch.
And by the way, you don't even need a DVCS for that. Many SVN-based open source projects use a »branch-before-release« workflow as well.
David
