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## Pull Requests
ALL changes to the LAMMPS code and documentation, however trivial, MUST
be submitted as a pull request to GitHub. All changes to the "master"
be submitted as a pull request to GitHub. All changes to the "develop"
branch must be made exclusively through merging pull requests. The
"unstable" and "stable" branches, respectively are only to be updated
"release" and "stable" branches, respectively are only to be updated
upon patch or stable releases with fast-forward merges based on the
associated tags. Pull requests may also be submitted to (long-running)
feature branches created by LAMMPS developers inside the LAMMPS project,
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LAMMPS uses a continuous release development model with incremental
changes, i.e. significant effort is made - including automated pre-merge
testing - that the code in the branch "master" does not get easily
testing - that the code in the branch "develop" does not get easily
broken. These tests are run after every update to a pull request. More
extensive and time consuming tests (including regression testing) are
performed after code is merged to the "master" branch. There are patch
performed after code is merged to the "develop" branch. There are patch
releases of LAMMPS every 3-5 weeks at a point, when the LAMMPS
developers feel, that a sufficient amount of changes have happened, and
the post-merge testing has been successful. These patch releases are
marked with a `patch_<version date>` tag and the "unstable" branch
marked with a `patch_<version date>` tag and the "release" branch
follows only these versions (and thus is always supposed to be of
production quality, unlike "master", which may be temporary broken, in
production quality, unlike "develop", which may be temporary broken, in
the case of larger change sets or unexpected incompatibilities or side
effects.