Re: New sync'd branch

[Chong Yidong]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> What's the reason to have two branches EMACS_23 and EMACS_23_1_RC?
> The latter will be almost entirely unused. Are you holding it in
> reserve in case 23.2 is needed at short notice, eg for a security issue?

That too, but the main reason is that current trunk code contains code
that we want to include in 23.2.  Since the trunk is still relatively
stable, it's easier to cut a new 23.2 release branch than to backport
into EMACS_23_1_RC.