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[deadalnix]

On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 05:29:23 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 22:43:13 UTC, David Nadlinger 
> wrote:
>> On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 22:18:14 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
>>> This sounds to me like a bad idea. And indeed, I haven't 
>>> heard of any other project doing this.
>>
>> Having release branches is a common practice for many open 
>> source projects. For example, KDE creates a branch per minor 
>> release, with patch releases being made off that branch. LLVM 
>> also has a branch for each release.
>>
>> David
>
> This can only work if there are very few releases, else one has 
> to patch all the branches since a bug has been discovered. If 
> you release once per month, you potentially have to patch 10 or 
> 20 branches.

This is exactly to handle this kind of grunt work that computer 
and software were invented.