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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: With feature branches, what is ever committed directly to master
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:15:47 -0500
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 14:02, Bradley Wagner
<bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> wrote:
> what kind of stuff is ever committed
> directly to "master" or is master
> typically the place where things are
> merged into from other stable/features
> branches?
>
> Is "master" really even unstable at
> that point?
>
> Thanks in advance! I realize this
> question is pretty open-ended.

See here:

  http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob_plain;f=MaintNotes;hb=todo

The `master' branch is indeed considered the most stable version of
the software when it comes to the way `git' itself is maintained.