committing changes to 3.1 branch

[Per Bothner]

Nic Ferrier wrote:
> I have committed the manual changes to the head. Per mentioned
> commiting to the branch as well... 
> 
> Should I be doing that? Doesn't the branch get merged changes (or
> vice versa?)

No.  Automatic merging from the head to the 3.1 branch would be contrary
to the point of the branch, which is to make a solid release.  Thus we
need to manually evaluate if a change is important and safe enough to go 
into the branch.  Automatic merging the other way could be possible,
but also unwise.  Sometimes we may check a simple, kludgy, but hopefully
small and safe fix into branch, but a more correct but less safe into
the head.
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