On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 22:43:13 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 22:18:14 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
This sounds to me like a bad idea. And indeed, I haven't heard
of any other project doing this.
Having release branches is a common practice for many open
source projects. For example, KDE creates a branch per minor
release, with patch releases being made off that branch. LLVM
also has a branch for each release.
David
This can only work if there are very few releases, else one has
to patch all the branches since a bug has been discovered. If you
release once per month, you potentially have to patch 10 or 20
branches.
