On Wed, Jun 7, 2017, 6:56 PM Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:

> Why would you? It is a good habit to merge maint into master after
> a patch.


Just because I cannot always be sure that all the commits made by someone
else in maint branch are applicable in master branch too.

I didn't do it for my own commit because I'm about to commit
> something else and wanted to reduce a bit the number of merge commits.


Thanks, that makes sense.

So typically one wouldn't come across a decision point if they should or
shouldn't merge the maint branch commits made by someone else.

And in the case there are commits that should not be merged to master, you
just cherry-pick, right?
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Kaushal Modi

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