Re: Freeze is almost here

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <address@hidden>:

>>>>> "John Wiegley" <address@hidden>:
>> I'm sorry to have created so much confusion, I assumed too much about our
>> collective Git habits. Next time I'll "cut once", and it will be frozen from
>> that moment forward. I had feared I wouldn't be available to do it at the
>> right time, so I did it early, expecting to allow changes from master until
>> the cutoff point.

> Note that you can branch off from any commit on master after the fact.

> Ie. you can look down the history list of master and decide "Ah!
> There!", and then do
>  git checkout -b emacs-26.1 
> <sha1-has-of-the-commit-where-the-branch-should-start>
>  git push -u origin HEAD

(note: my use of "emacs-26.1" as an example is for the next release
branch off master.  "emacs-25" is already a done deal)