1 You can view the available Emacs branches at
3 http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/
5 Development normally takes places on the trunk.
6 Sometimes specialized features are developed on separate branches
7 before possibly being merged to the trunk.
9 Development is discussed on the emacs-devel mailing list.
11 Sometime before the release of a new major version of Emacs (eg 23.2),
12 a "feature freeze" is imposed on the trunk. No new features may be
13 added after this point. This is usually some months before the release.
15 Shortly before the release, a release branch is created, and the
16 trunk is then free for development.
17 For example, "emacs-23" for Emacs 23.2 and later, "EMACS_23_1_RC" for
18 23.1, "EMACS_22_BASE" for 22.x, and "EMACS_21_1_RC" for 21.x.
20 Consult emacs-devel for exactly what kinds of changes are allowed
21 on what branch at any time.
23 If you are looking at this file in a branch other than the trunk,
24 there may be some branch-specific documentation below this line.
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29 This branch does not contain a copy of Emacs, but of the Emacs Lisp
30 package archive (elpa.gnu.org). See admin/notes/elpa for further
31 explanation, and the README file in the branch for usage