On 22/03/2013, at 09:32, Kris Borchers <kris(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I definitely think branches are necessary. Just from my experience
with jQuery, this has worked well.
When a new stable, minor version is released, a branch is created for it. So we would
create a 1.0-stable branch or something like that. When bugs are fixed, they are fixed in
master, then cherry-picked over to the current stable branch. When we are ready for a
patch release (1.0.1 for example), that can be tagged directly from the 1.0-stable branch
and all of those bug fixes already exist in master.
I agree, with the added difference that I don't think we should start creating
branches until needed. If there's a bug to be fixed for 1.0.x series then we can go
and create the branch.
(/me slightly remembers a project full of phantom branches without changes)
-- qmx