[PATCH] Documentation/process: Explain when tip branches get merged into mainline

Christian Kujau posted 1 patch 2 years, 6 months ago
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[PATCH] Documentation/process: Explain when tip branches get merged into mainline
Posted by Christian Kujau 2 years, 6 months ago
Explain when tip branches get merged into mainline.
    
Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>

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diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst
index 572a3289c9cb..d43cc2272e83 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst
@@ -421,6 +421,9 @@ allowing themselves a breath. Please respect that.
 The release candidate -rc1 is the starting point for new patches to be
 applied which are targeted for the next merge window.
 
+So called _urgent_ branches will be merged into mainline during the
+stabilization phase of each release.
+
 
 Git
 ^^^

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