Hello Oleh, On 11 September 2015 at 04:59 PDT, Oleh Krehel wrote:
> What is the purpose of maint exactly? In Emacs git repository there's > master and emacs24. All commits apply to master first, while some are > cherry picked onto emacs24. The emacs24 branch will never be merged into > master: it's divergent and that's fine. > > As I understood, for Org mode some commits are applied to maint, and > then merged into master. Why? It may be helpful for you to do a some background reading on workflows with git. Have you ever read the gitworkflows man page? https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitworkflows.html This page discusses many of the questions you have raised. Best, Josiah
