Subject: [PATCH v3 6/5] SubmittingPatches: choice of base for fixing an older maintenance track

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:16:49 -0700

When working on an high-value bugfix that must be given to ancient
maintenance tracks, a starting point that is older than `maint` may
have to be chosen.

Helped-by: Linus Arver <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index f1774c91e9..d1e3783978 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -46,7 +46,12 @@ latest HEAD commit of `maint` or `master` based on the following cases:
 * If you are fixing bugs in the released version, use `maint` as the
   starting point (which may mean you have to fix things without using
   new API features on the cutting edge that recently appeared in
-  `master` but were not available in the released version).
+  `master` but were not available in the released version). If the bug
+  exists in an older version (e.g., commit `X` introduced the bug, and
+  `git describe --containx X` says `v2.30.0-rc2-gXXXXXX` has it), then
+  use the tip of the maintenance branch for the 2.30.x versions in the
+  `maint-2.30` branch in https://github.com/gitster/git[the maintainer's
+  repo].
 
 * Otherwise (such as if you are adding new features) use `master`.
 
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