From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9241F428 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 20:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752830AbeAEUpH (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:45:07 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:51236 "EHLO pb-smtp1.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752766AbeAEUpG (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:45:06 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E09CED4A; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:45:05 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=rPEa4eSkBAC9P/9HraCSRFXj5XY=; b=NZKKIh YCjGMI3HzSWRMNCuMn7AgYxKsfFIyBBAhayKLdX1pJISXoHMh5JZb7nRrewmO7/q HFAm/W2o8y7kwdZUDBdKtZwtcNDclC7luylZvoSMkx5zMnnZKv8/6ZVEZNM/JDn7 95CTZ+pXHMXkg6vZlFLm+vp0W5OEy+eK3UT4k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=YEc9zlxql+qGu2ecBeBxKoYrICmG0Th5 spioQYcHxB4VaqapyD8Fz00/fpaJ0xVLX7VJuHeK82NbD9sKv9PgNI8oYkNyVMK4 zHxDrvselnbFpSbg7snmv51s4w4CvPsRAlwY3JZ8hhwRj2Hg6SXPUvFWztOTxrca 5ZePYRYcrO0= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA662CED49; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:45:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.0.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2CD09CED44; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:45:05 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: Isaac Shabtay , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug report: git clone with dest References: <20180103222821.GA32287@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20180104040124.GA11626@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20180105195705.GA5217@sigill.intra.peff.net> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:45:03 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20180105195705.GA5217@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 5 Jan 2018 14:57:05 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4F25A5EC-F259-11E7-A9AD-8EF31968708C-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jeff King writes: > Out of curiosity, did this change at some point? I thought the process > used to be to merge to maint, and then pick up topics in master by > merging maint to master. If you look at "Sync with maint" merges made to 'master', you'd notice that most of them are only updating Documentation/RelNotes/* and otherwise no-effect merges, simply because when such an up-merge is made, everything in 'maint' is already in 'master' because topics are merged to the latter first. Security fixes that go through embargoes are excempt for obvious reasons ;-) I do not recall how it was before 2012.