[x264-devel] x264 daily snapshots: what is the difference between the two available?

[Steven Walters]

for every commit spree, there is usually a set of bugfixes and a set
of 'enhancements'.

the master/normal branch gets both the bugfixes and enhancements.
the stable branch gets only the bugfixes.

the underlying logic here is that the enhancements will probably have
some bugs in them,
so the stable branch will have less bugs overall compared to the normal branch.

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Bill Smith <b_smith at xdt.com> wrote:
> Please excuse me if this is a dumb question, but I have searched both
> the ML archives (last 5 months) and the web and I wasn't able to find an
> answer to the following:
>
> What exactly is the difference between the normal and the stable
> snapshot (that is present since February) in the daily snapshot ftp
> archive?
> I notice both are changing frequently so in which way is the stable one
> more stable?
>
> I even didd a diff -r between the two and found that there are
> relatively few differences (I'm not a programmer so I couldn't tell what
> the code differences meant).
>
> Many thanks in advance for any clarification.
>
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