Re: [O] Missing patch from Eric Schulte from 2013-10-09

[Francesco Pizzolante]

Hi Achim,

> The maint branch contains the release (8.2.4 for your example) plus
> those patches that are purely bugfixes (i.e. do not alter, remove or
> introduce features).  In your example, eight such patches had
> accumulated, placing you at commit f1b933: release_8.2.4-8-gf1b9339.
>
> The master branch includes everything on maint plus any patches that
> alter, remove or introduce features.  That amounted to 350 commits past
> the 8.2.4 release at the merge into master (d55f06), including those
> eight from maint: release_8.2.4-350-gd55f063.

Thanks a lot for these clear explanations.

If I understand well, to find patches from the master branch in the
maint branch, I'll need to wait until the next major release, i.e.
release 8.3. Am I right?

Regards,
 Francesco