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* CONTRIBUTE (branches): Tell how to avoid merging of
non-backported changes.
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@ -184,15 +184,19 @@ If you are fixing a bug that exists in the current release, be sure to
commit it to the release branch; it will be merged to the master
branch later.
However, if you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the
trunk (eg because the trunk code has changed a lot), you can apply the
change to both trunk and branch yourself. It could also happen that a
change is cherry-picked from master to the release branch, and so
doesn't need to be merged back. In these cases, indicate in the
release branch commit log that there is no need to merge the commit to
the trunk; start the commit message with "Backport:". gitmerge.el
will then exclude that commit from the merge to trunk.
However, if you know that the change will be difficult to merge to
master (eg because the code on master has changed a lot), you can
apply the change to both master and branch yourself. It could also
happen that a change is cherry-picked from master to the release
branch, and so doesn't need to be merged back. In these cases,
indicate in the release branch commit log that there is no need to
merge the commit to master; start the commit message with "Backport:".
gitmerge.el will then exclude that commit from the merge to trunk.
Some changes should not be merged to master at all, for whatever
reasons. These should be marked by including something like "Do not
merge to master" or anything that matches gitmerge-skip-regexp (see
gitmerge.el) in the log message.
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