[llvm] ead5024 - docs: Document policy around GitHub branches

[Tom Stellard via llvm-commits]

Author: Tom Stellard
Date: 2023-05-04T11:52:24-07:00
New Revision: ead502454c2a46fdee27db9bff57246b3bff6efc

URL: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/ead502454c2a46fdee27db9bff57246b3bff6efc
DIFF: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/ead502454c2a46fdee27db9bff57246b3bff6efc.diff

LOG: docs: Document policy around GitHub branches

See discussion in #56643.

Reviewed By: rengolin, jhenderson, ldionne

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D147276

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Modified: 
    llvm/docs/GitHub.rst

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diff  --git a/llvm/docs/GitHub.rst b/llvm/docs/GitHub.rst
index 06d574be946f..407a612e544b 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/GitHub.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/GitHub.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ The LLVM Project uses `GitHub <https://github.com/>`_ for
 This page describes how the LLVM Project users and developers can
 participate in the project using GitHub.
 
+Branches
+========
+Do not create any branches in the llvm/llvm-project repository.  This repository
+is reserved for official project branches only.  We may relax this rule in
+the future if needed to support "stacked" pull request, but in that case only
+branches being used for "stacked" pull requests will be allowed.
+
+
 Releases
 ========