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Meta/MaintNotes: adjust to 2.8/2.7.4
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To: git@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: A note from the maintainer
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Welcome to the Git development community.
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switched the versioning scheme and "feature releases" are named with
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three-dotted decimal digits that ends with ".0" (e.g. "1.9.0").
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The last such release was 2.7.0 done on Jan 4th, 2016. You can expect
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The last such release was 2.8.0 done on Mar 28th, 2016. You can expect
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that the tip of the "master" branch is always more stable than any of
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the released versions.
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dotted decimal, named after the feature release they are updates to
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(e.g. "1.8.5.1" was the first maintenance release for "1.8.5" feature
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release). These days, maintenance releases are named by incrementing
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the last digit of three-dotted decimal name (e.g. "2.6.3" is the
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third maintenance release for the "2.6" series).
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the last digit of three-dotted decimal name (e.g. "2.7.4" is the
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fourth maintenance release for the "2.7" series).
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New features never go to the 'maint' branch. This branch is also
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merged into "master" to propagate the fixes forward as needed.

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