version control policy

[Tristan Gingold]

> On 08 Mar 2017, at 19:41, Petr Ovtchenkov <ptr@void-ptr.info> wrote:
> 
> Good day!
> 
> I want to understand aspects in version control policy.
> 
> - What the principles of branches? I.e. what the relation between,
>  say, master, binutils-2_28-branch and gdb-7.12-branch?

Branches are created from master.

>  What the relation between binutils-2_28-branch and published
>  binutils 2.28, gdb-7.12-branch and published GDB 7.12.1?

Published releases are created from branches.  Usually, there is also a tag on the commit for the release.

Tristan.