The primary working branch for this repo is the main branch. This branch tracks the in-development branch of core. The patch branches are named 252-patch and such. The patch branches track the production branches of core. A new patch branch is created at Code Line Cut Over(CLCO).
Any bug fixes targeted for production should be first committed to the main branch and then backported to the appropriate patch branch.
This repo has been setup to release using githooks. Any PR merged to main branch will be immediately released and tagged as next. For the patch branches, the tag is either latest or prerelease based on the configuration in the onRelease github hook. The latest tag is used for the patch branch tracking the production branches of core.
The Salesforce release is deployed in a staggered manner. There is a phase where the upcoming production release is available on Sandboxes as a preview to customers. Such customers can use the prerelease version of the plugin. At CLCO, the new patch branch will be set to release with prerelease tag. After R2b release, the prerelease version will be promoted to be the latest by modifying the onRelease github hook.