Re: [screen-devel] What's the "master" branch used for in the git repo?

[Alex Naumov]

Hi,
the idea is to use a 'master' branch as a preparation for the next 'screen-v5', i.e. a development branch for Screen v5.x.x releases.
Many people don't like this idea and situation with different code bases in different branches (including me).
I think some discussion will take place before we're going to start working on v5.0.0 release.

If you're going to start working on code, please use the 'screen-v4' branch. Code from this branch is used to generate tarballs[1] that maintainers use for creating Screen-packages for GNU/Linux and other systems.

Cheers,

Alex

[1] http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:01 PM Clark Wang <dearvoid@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Regarding https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/refs/ -- Seems
like the official screen releases are from the "screen-v4" branch and
the "master" branch is also actively maintained (according to the git
log) but the code in "master" is quite different from "screen-v4". So
what is the "master" branch used for?

Thanks,
clark