Breaking D2 language/spec changes with D1 being discontinued in a month

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On 29 November 2012 03:48, deadalnix <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 29 November 2012 at 01:29:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
>> Since master will almost certainly be the development branch, I don't see
>> how
>>
>> that's a problem. The stable branch will be a separate branch, and
>> whoever is
>> managing the stable branch will merge stuff from the master branch into
>> it.
>>
>>
> In this case, all bug fixes are mixed with new feature and then have to be
> separated afterward and remerged into the stable branch. This is useless
> work and it is likely to cause merge conflict in the stable branch.
>
> Additionnaly, this become to really suck when several new features are dev
> at the same time.
>
> Finally, yhis is completely inconsistent with how github work in the first
> place.
>
> master make sense as an unstable branch, a release candidate, a beta or
> whatever, but certainly not a dev branch.


Why don't you document precisely what branches you think should exist, and
the working merge/rebase policies.
I'm actually very curious to know.


 Granted, major stuff like 64-bit Windows support and UDAs should probably
>> be
>> introduced on branches separate from master, and it's still a problem if
>> they're not, but it won't affect the stable branch if they're not.
>>
>>
> It will become all bigfixes will be based on code that contains the new
> feature.
>
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