From 4619bb243db71309f1c0a619347995560d3dd20b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: flip1995 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:14:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note to the beta sections of release.md --- doc/release.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/release.md b/doc/release.md index 25ddff4c48c..f16ddb375da 100644 --- a/doc/release.md +++ b/doc/release.md @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ to the beta Rust release. The remerge is then necessary, to make sure that the Clippy commit, that was used by the now stable Rust release, persists in the tree of the Clippy repository. +To find out if this step is necessary run `git branch master --contains beta`. +If this command outputs `master`, this step is **not** necessary. + ```bash # Assuming `HEAD` is the current `master` branch of rust-lang/rust-clippy $ git checkout -b backport_remerge