Re: [SCM] The nmh Mail Handling System branch, master, updated. 1.7-branchpoint-887-g54434563

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi David,

> > Should I stop pushing commits now so as to not get in your way, or
> > keep pottering them in as they may make it if there's an 1.8-RC2?
>
> I'd rather avoid code changes because, in theory, they'd require
> complete re-testing.

Agreed.

> If you find a code change that really should go in, how about posting
> it here for concurrence?  Everything else should be easy to cherry
> pick.

I've pushed a few more trivial documentation things to master, which
don't have to make 1.8.  I'm not intending to post anything to branch
1.8-release, considering it your domain.

I'm a bit puzzled by the tags and branches though.

    ┌ 68228e3c (origin/master, origin/HEAD)
    │          man/burst.man: re-word to avoid ‘digestifying’, etc.
    ⋮
    ├ a3a23a66 man/*.man: fix options which didn't escape their hyphen.
    ├ 277347a4 NEWS: fix spelling of ‘MIME’.
    ├ f8fb242b NEWS: add a link to Norm's Wikipedia page.
    ├ 19d63f85 .gitignore: move ‘/configure~’ entry to correct section.
    ├ 5608cda8 Update for 1.8-RC1.
    │
    ├ 760a6ba9 (tag: 1.8-RC1)
    │          Updates for 1.8 release.
    ├ 69027ab9 Update for 1.8 release.
    │
    │ ┌ a60e1455 (origin/1.8-release)
    │ │          man/*.man: fix options which didn't escape their hyphen.
    │ ├ 8ec6dc0e NEWS: fix spelling of ‘MIME’.
    │ ├ 1f4822e8 NEWS: add a link to Norm's Wikipedia page.
    │ ├ 2e344864 .gitignore: move ‘/configure~’ entry to correct section.
    ├─┘
    ├ 54434563 (tag: 1.8-branchpoint) Updates for 1.8 release.
    ├ bee25da0 Ignore configure tilde file
    ⋮

I can see tag 1.8-branchpoint is the branch point for the 1.8-release
branch, but why are 69027ab9, 760a6ba9, 5608cda8, which alter VERSION
and DATE, on master rather than 1.8-release?

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.