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master stopped at the X.Y.0 release of each minor. Patch releases stayed on their release/X.Y.x branch, so master was behind the latest stable release. For example, master was at 4.17.0 while 4.17.4 was out. After a patch of the newest stable minor is published, merge its release branch into master with a true merge commit. master then always holds the latest stable release. A patch for an older line stays on its release branch. master now gets the patch version bump, which dev does not have. The next dev to master release PR conflicts in package.json. Document how to resolve it on a promotion branch, and never in the GitHub UI, because the UI merges master into dev.
WalkthroughRelease guidance now specifies how patch releases update ChangesRelease branch and promotion guidance
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Other Suggested labels: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Some release guidance remains ambiguous about older patch lines, and the promotion procedure can use outdated master state. Align the summaries and fetch before merging to reduce the risk of an incorrect patch merge or incomplete promotion; these are bounded documentation and workflow risks. Pre-merge checks |
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- Line 30: Limit patch merges into master to the newest stable minor’s release
line, and clarify that older release-line patches remain on their branches.
Update the branch table at docs/development-and-release-flow.md lines 30 and
49–51, the branching summary at .github/CONTRIBUTING.md lines 36–37, the release
summary at README.md lines 162–163, the branch-model table at
docs/release-process.md line 17, and the release-type table at
.claude/skills/ship-release/SKILL.md line 27 to state this rule consistently.
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- Line 251: In docs/release-process.md at line 251, fetch origin master
immediately before the promotion merge so git merge origin/master uses a fresh
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| | Branch | Purpose | Who merges into it | Merge method | | ||
| | -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------- | | ||
| | `dev` | Default branch. Integration point for all feature and fix PRs. Source of alpha tags | Any contributor via PR review | Squash | | ||
| | `master` | Released code only. Its tip is the latest stable release. Gets `dev` at promotion and `release/X.Y.x` after each patch | Release manager, at promotion and after a patch | True merge commit | |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Limit patch merges into master to the newest stable minor. These summaries imply that every patch release line merges into master. The PR objective says older release-line patches must stay on their branches.
docs/development-and-release-flow.md#L30-L30: qualify the branch table’s patch-merge rule.docs/development-and-release-flow.md#L49-L51: state that only the newest stable minor’s patch line merges intomaster..github/CONTRIBUTING.md#L36-L37: add the same limit to the branching summary.README.md#L162-L163: add the same limit to the release summary.docs/release-process.md#L17-L17: align the branch-model table with the later older-line exception..claude/skills/ship-release/SKILL.md#L27-L27: align the release-type table with the older-line exception in the wrap-up steps.
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Review comment at @docs/development-and-release-flow.md at line 30:
Limit patch merges into master to the newest stable minor’s release line, and
clarify that older release-line patches remain on their branches. Update the
branch table at docs/development-and-release-flow.md lines 30 and 49–51, the
branching summary at .github/CONTRIBUTING.md lines 36–37, the release summary at
README.md lines 162–163, the branch-model table at docs/release-process.md line
17, and the release-type table at .claude/skills/ship-release/SKILL.md line 27
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Refresh origin/master before the documented promotion merge.
The documented flow does not refresh origin/master before git merge origin/master. A stale tracking ref can omit current master changes from the promotion branch and later diff review.
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git merge origin/masterThe ship-release skill already fetches master before this step, so no change is required there.
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Review comment at @docs/release-process.md at line 251:
In docs/release-process.md at line 251, fetch origin master immediately before
the promotion merge so git merge origin/master uses a fresh tracking ref. In
.claude/skills/ship-release/SKILL.md at line 146, no direct change is required;
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@mchang-andorra, the fix described in a9ccc5b concerns session persistence, not this release-documentation finding.
This thread asks for git fetch origin master before git merge origin/master in docs/release-process.md. Did that commit also add the fetch step?
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masterstops at theX.Y.0release of each minor. Patch releases stay on theirrelease/X.Y.xbranch, somasteris behind the latest stable release.masterwas at 4.17.0 while 4.17.4 was out, and it is at 4.18.0 now while 4.18.1 is out.We added the patch branches when
masteralready had unreleased work fromdev. Now all development goes todev, somastercan hold the latest stable release again.Change
master: after a patch of the newest stable minor is published, open a PR fromrelease/X.Y.xintomaster. Merge it with a true merge commit. A patch for an older line stays on its release branch.masternow gets the patch version bump, whichdevdoes not have. The nextdev→masterrelease PR conflicts inpackage.json. The docs now say how to resolve it on apromote/X.Y.0branch. Never resolve it in the GitHub UI, because the UI mergesmasterintodev. After the merge,git diff origin/devshows each change that is onmasteronly, so a hotfix that nobody forward-ported is easy to see.docs/release-process.md,docs/development-and-release-flow.md(with the diagram),AGENTS.md,README.md,.github/CONTRIBUTING.mdand theship-releaseskill.Verification
release/4.18.xinto a copy ofmaster, bumped a copy ofdevto 4.19.0, and merged it into themastercopy. Onlypackage.jsonconflicted. The version fromdevresolved it.git diffagainstdevalso showed 9 i18n files. These come from Lingohub PR Language update from Lingohub 🤖 on 2026-08-17Z #3459, which merged intomasterand not intodev. That PR removed an unusedmenuBar.disabledHintkey. This difference was there before this change.prettier --checkpasses on the changed files, except.github/CONTRIBUTING.md, which failed before this change.Summary by CodeRabbit
devtomaster, while patches use release branches.masterwith a merge commit; older-line patches remain on their release branches.dev.