> What's the difference between these two tags? Do we need them both?
AFAIK:
release22-maint
is what we use for post-2.2 maintenance releases
release22-branch
was used briefly just before the 2.2 release
Also:
release22
was the 2.2 release itself
r221
was the 2.2.1 release
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