different ways.
The full repository takes up about 80MB of disk space. A check out of
-the blead branch (that is, the master branch, which contains bleadperl,
-the development version of perl 5) takes up about 160MB of disk space
-(including the repository). A build of bleadperl takes up about 200MB
+the blead branch (that is, the main development branch, which contains
+bleadperl, the development version of perl 5) takes up about 160MB of disk
+space (including the repository). A build of bleadperl takes up about 200MB
(including the repository and the check out).
=head1 GETTING ACCESS TO THE REPOSITORY
% git checkout blead
% git pull
-(It's preferable to patch against the latest blead version, since
-patches are usually integrated from blead to the maintenance branches.
-This does not apply, obviously, in the rare case where your patch is
-specific to a maintaince release.)
+It's preferable to patch against the latest blead version, since
+this is where new development occurs for all changes other than critical
+bug fixes. Critical bug fix patches should be made against the relevant
+maint branches, or should be submitted with a note indicating all the
+branches where the fix should be applied.
Now that we have everything up to date, we need to create a temporary
new branch for these changes and switch into it:
=head1 COMMITTING TO MAINTENANCE VERSIONS
+Maintenance versions should only be altered to add critical bug fixes.
+
To commit to a maintenance version of perl, you need to create a local
tracking branch: