[SeaBIOS] Version of master behind stable branch versions

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Fr, 2015-09-11 at 21:57 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear SeaBIOS folks,
> 
> 
> building SeaBIOS from master, the version string shows 1.8.0-…, which
> is more current than the rel-1.8.0-148-g75cb2b9 release. This is
> confusing.
> 
> Should the stable branches be merged back into the master branch to get
> a less confusing behavior? Or is there a different way to handle this?

All patches in stable are cherry-picked from master.  So there is
nothing to merge.

It's just that stable was branched at rel-1.8.0.  stable got, well,
stable releases (and tags for them), whereas master didn't got any tags
because there is no new release yet ...

cheers,
  Gerd