Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2010, um 08:47:17 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> > But if you're working on a separate branch (as is right and proper
> > for a major change), then I'm not certain how to go about it.  I'm
> > looking forward to opinions.
> 
> I don't see a problem here.  Just merge origin/master into your work
> branch occasionally, then the patch will be relative to the current
> version.

The problem is that many regtest files and mainly documentation files contain 
\version "2.13.x"
These lines will all be out of date if a release happened while the patch was 
under review. And in particular for new features, which require a particular 
version (i.e. a new feature, or a changed syntax that needs a convert-ly 
rule), it is essential that the version number is really the first version 
where that syntax exists in the used form...

Cheers,
Reinhold

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