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authorThomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>2009-08-03 10:12:53 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>2009-08-03 10:14:26 +0200
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parent052eee8e4838901ea0bbf8cb3f532b1471f6738c (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' into master-news_next
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@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ happen, the copyright of your changes has to be assigned to the Free Software
Foundation; read about the
[[copyright_assignment_process|savannah_group#copyright_assignment]].
+It is explicitly encouraged to *merge* changes from working branches into the
+mainline branches (as opposed to *rebase* them on top), as the former mode
+easily allows to determine the context under which a patch has been developed.
+
# Tags
Equivalent rules apply.