From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Patrick Lühne" <patrick@luehne.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Officially supported Git versions
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 12:16:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8t8bvz6x.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5856696-bfcf-173a-49ac-6aa6989316d3@luehne.de> ("Patrick =?utf-8?Q?L=C3=BChne=22's?= message of "Tue, 22 May 2018 19:20:01 +0200")
Patrick Lühne <patrick@luehne.de> writes:
> Is there an official list of the Git versions that are still actively
> supported?
Depends on your definition of "official". Distro with lts may patch
older maintenance tracks longer than the upstream releases do, and
as far as the normal end-users are concerned, Distro packaged
binaries are as "offcial" as they get, probably more "official" than
what comes from the upstream and then built from the source.
I however do not think distro folks advertise which maintenance
tracks they backport the patches here on this mailing list.
As to the "upstream", usually 'maint' track gets all fixes, and
probably one or two older maintenance tracks tend to get security
fixes as well. Beyond that horizon, it's pretty much "as time
permits" basis.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-23 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-22 17:20 Officially supported Git versions Patrick Lühne
2018-05-23 3:16 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=xmqq8t8bvz6x.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com \
--to=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=patrick@luehne.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).