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[Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good points. However, I still think it might make sense to have at
least one more level of granularity, and use temporary branches for
major changes etc. so that they can be tested before being merged into
master. Simply, to make a merge request for big changes even if done
by one of the core developers. Going back to the 5.1 branch just to
have a non-crashing version of kicad is quite a leap.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 3:41 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We have discussed this before and given that very few users would ever
> test the development branch(es), I'm not going to change our branching
> policy.  I don't think it's unfair to ask users who are aware that the
> master branch (which is the KiCad development branch) is always in a
> state of flux to deal with a bit of temporary instability in exchange
> for some comprehensive testing of new features.  Most users seem willing
> to help with the testing in spite of some minor and sometimes some not
> so minor inconveniences.  I think have development branches would just
> slow down how quickly new feature bugs would get fixed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 12/11/19 9:21 AM, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Perhaps it would make sense to adopt something like this?
> > https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/#the-main-branches
> >
> > In short, all development happens on 'develop' branch and only when
> > this is stable it's merged back to 'master'. One doesn't have to
> > follow the above model strictly, for example a merge into master
> > doesn't need to mean "new version to be released".
> >
> > Another nice thing is that stuff that are work in progress and not yet
> > stable can live in a feature branch until it's stable enough to merge
> > into 'develop'. (For example the new symbol inheritance stuff, which
> > currently makes the master branch a bit unusable)
> >
> > Maybe some of this makes sense, and some not? Just some thoughts while
> > trying to find a point in the master branch history that doesn't crash
> > all the time :)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
>
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