The Implications for Bank-Based Development

Tribal development teams never freeze the trunk ever. The a-commit or commits get cherry-picked to it which is a specialized form of merge that Git has, mercurial has but not release branches. A policy change means devs shall not develop on the release branch. So we said already we don't want additional features rammed in after the branch cut moment. But we are open to bug fixes going in because somebody in the proving cycle for the release that's about to go out this couple with that release branch has found a defect. We have fixed that in the trunk. That was unplanned work. It may be able to test as well because we're really good test driven