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1 | You can view the available Emacs branches at |
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3 | http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/ | |
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5 | Development normally takes places on the trunk. |
6 | Sometimes specialized features are developed on separate branches | |
7 | before possibly being merged to the trunk. | |
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041b80fc | 9 | Development is discussed on the emacs-devel mailing list. |
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041b80fc | 11 | Sometime before the release of a new major version of Emacs (eg 23.2), |
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041b80fc | 13 | added after this point. This is usually some months before the release. |
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15 | Shortly before the release, a release branch is created, and the |
16 | trunk is then free for development. | |
17 | For example, "emacs-23" for Emacs 23.2 and later, "EMACS_23_1_RC" for | |
18 | 23.1, "EMACS_22_BASE" for 22.x, and "EMACS_21_1_RC" for 21.x. | |
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20 | Traditionally only bug-fixes were allowed in minor releases. |
21 | Recently (22.x, 23.2), self-contained new features were allowed on a | |
22 | case-by-case basis. | |
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24 | If you are looking at this file in a branch other than the trunk, |
25 | there may be some branch-specific documentation below this line. | |
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