Mercurial development process: mainline branching
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Wed Apr 18 15:34:06 CDT 2012
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 15:08 -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> At
>
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/DeveloperRepos
>
> it says the following about the main Mercurial repository:
>
> "No new features are going to the stable branch, mainline
> (the default branch) will be branched again near each
> release."
>
> I only see two branches in the main repository: default and
> stable. So does this mean that when Matt Mackall branches
> mainline to create the new stable branch, it is branched with
> the name "stable" (e.g. "hg branch -f stable"), thus *replacing*
> the previous branch named "stable"?
I do the following:
$ hg up stable
$ hg merge default
$ hg commit -m "merge default into stable for code freeze"
Since I just did this, you can see for yourself here:
http://www.selenic.com/hg/graph/09dd707b522a
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