Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.6.x - detachdb in wrong place

From: Gregory Maxwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:52:18 -0400

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:35 PM, grarpamp <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> It isn't inside the ifdef in bitcoin git master.
>
> Oh, hmm, well then, what is the difference or usage
> between these two repositories in regards to the project?
> Which one are the formal releases tagged (tbz's cut) in?
>
> Which one has the branches with the commits that will
> make it into the next formal release? ie: tracking along
> 0.5.x, 0.6.x, HEAD/master (to be branched for 0.7.x).
>
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
> https://git.gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable

The latter is Luke's backports of security and stability fixes to
otherwise unmaintained old versions.