`git describe`

[Lawrence Velázquez]

> On Nov 28, 2016, at 7:41 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is moot if master is exclusively a testing area for experiments
> that may never make it to a release. If it has a more usual role and
> is used by those who live on the bleeding edge, then my point stands

All development is done on master. Sufficiently stable features are
manually cherry-picked to branches, which are used to make releases. We
do not make releases directly from master. Master is generally stable
enough to use day-to-day, which many devs do.

vq