Git Methodology

This page defines the canonical branch model used for CCCL development and release maintenance.

Canonical branches

• main

  • The default development branch.

  • Updates should be made via pull requests following our contributing guidelines.

• branch/X.Y.x

  • Branches from main meant for stabilizing and publishing tagged releases.

  • Created via release automation.

  • Changes should be made via the backport process.

Tagging conventions

• vX.Y.Z finalized release tags on release branches

• vX.Y.Z-rcN: release-candidate tags for pre-release validation.

• vX.Y.Z.dev: the first commit of development for X.Y.Z (the commit that increments the library version)