[Nix-dev] How does the branching currently work?

[Luca Bruno]

That's it. Additionally there's the staging branch for mass-rebuilds (like
stdenv changes), to avoid people tracking master recompiling the world.
Once staging builds on hydra it means there are binaries available and it
gets merged into master.

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd really like to know how the branching in nixpkgs work.
>
> From what I can see, it works like this:
>
> * PRs are done to master
> * On a release, we branch off of master and create a nixos-<version>
>   branch
>   * Only fixes get applied to this branch
> * nixos-unstable is just a specific commit on master which builds
>   successfully on hydra
>
> And that's it, isn't it? I mean, that'd be the simplest working
> approach IMO, but maybe you guys are doing something else, I don't
> know?
>
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