Flagging stable patches (was Re: [PATCH] cmdutil: fall back to filename if glob expand has errors)

[Greg Ward]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Matt Mackall<mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> Folks, please flag submitted patches that you think are suitable for
> stable. Those will typically be fairly straightforward bug or doc fixes.
> I'm going to try to do minor releases off -stable a bit more often this
> time around. That damn lock.LockError bug got reported too many times.

Great idea.  Even better would be if contributers used a common syntax
for flagging stable patches.  May I humbly propose:

  hg ci -m"(stable) foo: don't crash"

resulting in

  [PATCH] (stable) foo: don't crash

The catch: it's up to whoever reviews/approves/commits/pushes to
remove the "(stable) " prefix.

Greg