[Development] Qt 5.0.1 release branching is ongoing

[Peter Kümmel]

On 10.01.2013 23:31, Sergio Ahumada wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 11:29 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote:
>> On 09.01.2013 17:11, Salovaara Akseli wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Qt 5.0.1 release branching is ongoing and there are already around 300 commits available since Qt 5.0.0 release.
>>
>> Ahm, what was the difference between release and a tag, and  between release and stable?
>>
>
> cd qtbase
> git checkout release
> git pull --rebase
>
> git log --oneline v5.0.0..release # between release and tag
>
> git checkout stable
> git pull --rebase
>
> git log --oneline release..stable # between release and stable
>
>
> or something like it ..
>

Thanks ;)  but the question was more like this:

Is the release branch only for cherry-picking from stable patches?
Or under what circumstances should I push a merge request to 'release'
and not to 'stable'?

Peter