doc/HACKING: Improve documentation of how to bump version in maint

See discussion on 9553: Some of the build scripts don't like it when
you can't merge maint into release.
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Nick Mathewson 2014-05-20 15:02:35 -04:00
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@ -539,5 +539,7 @@ changelog to tor-talk or tor-announce.
13) If it's a stable release, bump the version number in the maint-x.y.z
branch to "newversion-dev", and do a "merge -s ours" merge to avoid
taking that change into master.
taking that change into master. Do a similar 'merge -s theirs'
merge to get the change (and only that change) into release. (Some
of the build scripts require that maint merge cleanly into release.)