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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index a70682f29ab..a02acadc73f 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -189,6 +189,10 @@ If you are fixing a bug that exists in the current release, be sure to commit it to the release branch; it will be merged to the master branch later by the gitmerge function. +Documentation fixes (in doc strings, in manuals, and in comments) +should always go to the release branch, if the documentation to be +fixed exists and is relevant to the release-branch codebase. + However, if you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the master (e.g., because the code on master has changed a lot), you can apply the change to both master and branch yourself. It could also |