[Openmcl-devel] making a git mirror of ccl

[mikel evins]

> On Dec 17, 2015, at 5:58 PM, R. Matthew Emerson <rme at clozure.com> wrote:
> 
> If we were ever to convert completely to git, I would suppose that we'd want to maintain some sort of similar setup.

A very common git workflow is sort of the opposite: the master branch contains tested, vetted, working code, and another branch contains code being tested before merging it with the master. Branches are extremely cheap and fast to create and merge in git, and so it’s also very common for each dev to work on a distinct branch or, in fat, a collection of branches. It’s fairly usual to have one branch per feature being worked on, and for such branches to live only long enough for the feature in question to be developed and merged with the release.