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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tonight's pushout
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 14:01:43 -0600
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Neal Kreitzinger wrote:

> "prerelease freeze" is not in the git-workflows manpage.  I'm interested in 
> how you-all do this because I use the git-workflows mangpage to help me 
> figure out my workflows.  Can someone explain?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_(software_engineering)

In git's incarnation of it, presumably the idea is that new features
do not get merged to 'master' (while they still would be merged to
'pu' and perhaps 'next').

See also <http://sites.google.com/site/maintnotes/> for some direct
discussion of the branches used by git.git.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan [1]

[1] Unrelated note: please try to preserve the cc list in replies
(i.e., "reply-to-all-by-mail" rather than "followup").