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Meta/MaintNotes: adjust to 2.8/2.7.4

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Junio C Hamano
2016-03-28 13:44:19 -07:00
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To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: A note from the maintainer
Welcome to the Git development community.
@@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ named with three dotted decimal digits (e.g. "1.8.5"), but recently we
switched the versioning scheme and "feature releases" are named with
three-dotted decimal digits that ends with ".0" (e.g. "1.9.0").
The last such release was 2.7.0 done on Jan 4th, 2016. You can expect
The last such release was 2.8.0 done on Mar 28th, 2016. You can expect
that the tip of the "master" branch is always more stable than any of
the released versions.
@@ -145,8 +146,8 @@ are cut from it. The maintenance releases used to be named with four
dotted decimal, named after the feature release they are updates to
(e.g. "1.8.5.1" was the first maintenance release for "1.8.5" feature
release). These days, maintenance releases are named by incrementing
the last digit of three-dotted decimal name (e.g. "2.6.3" is the
third maintenance release for the "2.6" series).
the last digit of three-dotted decimal name (e.g. "2.7.4" is the
fourth maintenance release for the "2.7" series).
New features never go to the 'maint' branch. This branch is also
merged into "master" to propagate the fixes forward as needed.