Re: Cherrypicking commit e08ed2bae2a8e91c0245259dfcbfdca1d191a119 onto emacs-26

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> This raises the question how we determine patches to be backported to
>> Emacs 26.2. I have no idea, but going through all closed bugs and/or all
>> commits to the master branch.
>
> Maybe we should have a file in admin that would list such commits.  Or
> maybe we should have a special phrase in the commit log message.

The latter one is good for errors. See the Version: line we shall add
when committing something. Many people, including me, tend to forget it.

Another approach would be a staging branch, which collects such backport
candidates.

Best regards, Michael.