Hi Achim, > The maint branch contains the release (8.2.4 for your example) plus > those patches that are purely bugfixes (i.e. do not alter, remove or > introduce features). In your example, eight such patches had > accumulated, placing you at commit f1b933: release_8.2.4-8-gf1b9339. > > The master branch includes everything on maint plus any patches that > alter, remove or introduce features. That amounted to 350 commits past > the 8.2.4 release at the merge into master (d55f06), including those > eight from maint: release_8.2.4-350-gd55f063.
Thanks a lot for these clear explanations. If I understand well, to find patches from the master branch in the maint branch, I'll need to wait until the next major release, i.e. release 8.3. Am I right? Regards, Francesco
