Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > Out of curiosity, did this change at some point? I thought the process > used to be to merge to maint, and then pick up topics in master by > merging maint to master.
If you look at "Sync with maint" merges made to 'master', you'd notice that most of them are only updating Documentation/RelNotes/* and otherwise no-effect merges, simply because when such an up-merge is made, everything in 'maint' is already in 'master' because topics are merged to the latter first. Security fixes that go through embargoes are excempt for obvious reasons ;-) I do not recall how it was before 2012.
