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* admin/notes/bzrmerge: Comment on skipped revisions.
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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.
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6 Sometimes specialized features are developed on separate branches
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7 before possibly being merged to the trunk.
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9 Development is discussed on the emacs-devel mailing list.
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11 Sometime before the release of a new major version of Emacs (eg 23.2),
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12 a "feature freeze" is imposed on the trunk. No new features may be
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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
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16 trunk is then free for development.
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17 For example, "emacs-23" for Emacs 23.2 and later, "EMACS_23_1_RC" for
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18 23.1, "EMACS_22_BASE" for 22.x, and "EMACS_21_1_RC" for 21.x.
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20 Consult emacs-devel for exactly what kinds of changes are allowed
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21 on what branch at any time.
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23 If you are looking at this file in a branch other than the trunk,
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24 there may be some branch-specific documentation below this line.
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