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authorEli Zaretskii2015-11-14 13:52:34 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii2015-11-14 13:52:34 +0200
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* CONTRIBUTE (Branches): Improve wording for back-ported commits.
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194However, if you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the 194However, if you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the
195trunk (eg because the trunk code has changed a lot), you can apply the 195trunk (eg because the trunk code has changed a lot), you can apply the
196change to both trunk and branch yourself. Indicate in the release 196change to both trunk and branch yourself. It could also happen that a
197branch commit log that there is no need to merge the commit to the 197change is cherry-picked from master to the release branch, and so
198trunk; start the commit message with "Backport:". gitmerge.el will 198doesn't need to be merged back. In these cases, indicate in the
199then exclude that commit from the merge to trunk. 199release branch commit log that there is no need to merge the commit to
200the trunk; start the commit message with "Backport:". gitmerge.el
201will then exclude that commit from the merge to trunk.
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201 203
202** Other process information 204** Other process information