Re: Release branch plans

[Andreas Schwab]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> In absolute terms, you're right. But Eli's argument is, I think, that
> the state of the trunk is more important. Having a worse trunk's
> history in exchange of a cleaner release branch's history is a net
> loss because we do, on the long term, orders of magnitude more work
> with the trunk that the release branch. Particularly "historical
> research" to determine when/how/why/by-whom an old change was done.

For this purpose a proper merge is far superior to a cherry-pick.

Andreas.

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