[fpc-pascal] Preparing FPC 3.2.4 RC2

[Warren Postma]

Inbetween "we never use branches" and "infinite branches bad" is every sane
git workflow.

Git flow, or something.    stable, trunk, at least.


On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 11:29 AM Florian Klämpfl via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

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> Am 22.04.2026 um 20:01 schrieb Warren Postma via fpc-pascal <
> fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>:
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> >As they should. It's then up to the FPC team to backport (cherry-pick)
> them to  a fixes branch.
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> This feels weird to me for some reason, maybe that's normal in this
> project, but it seems more Git-normal to not commit bugfixes straight to
> trunk. Is this a holdover from the svn days when that's the only workflow
> you had because svn branching was... broken?
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> No. But managing a branch for every change would basically mean thousands
> of branches. This is possible for projects like linux or whatever when
> there are people doing nothing else than managing branches. FPC does not
> have such resources. Despite this, I think also LLVM despite having huge
> support uses a cherry pick based approach to port fixes to stable branches.
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> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 11:04 PM Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal <
> fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> On Tuesday, 21 April 2026 00:16:46 BST Warren Postma via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> > The currently open PRs seem to 100% target main, not 3_2_4 and
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>> As they should. It's then up to the FPC team to backport (cherry-pick)
>> them to
>> a fixes branch.
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>> > few seem to be cleanly even able to land on main anymore after the many
>> > months of them sitting open, that's the trick, I think.
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>> Correct. I'll be starting this week, going through all the open MRs and
>> triage/label them for the authors to action, so we can get them back up
>> to
>> date (or closed).
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>> Regards,
>>   Graeme
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