Xavier Maillard [off-list ref] writes:
So, how is git development organised ? I saw there are topics but
I do not know how patches are applied mainline (onto tip of
master).
Your maintainer posts "A note from the maintainer" to the list
every once in a while describing this exact issue.
The last such message was on Feb 16th
Message-ID: [ref]
gmane has it as article 39954:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/39954