<div dir="ltr">Thanks! That's exactly the info I needed.<br><br>-Kurt</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 12:21 PM Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Kurt,<br>
<br>
you pretty much figure it out yourself. This is *only* an artifact to <br>
workaround some RtD behavior about how the "stable" branch at <br>
<a href="https://gdal.org/en/stable/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gdal.org/en/stable/</a> is kept in sync with the latest git <br>
release/3.13 branch (we might have missed something, or that might be an <br>
issue that has been solved). There might a delay of few hours between a <br>
git commit and the corresponding run of the github CI job that does the <br>
resync, depending on the intensity of the activity in the OSGeo/GDAL <br>
repo, so the 2 hours delay you've noted seems OK to me<br>
<br>
We haven't advertized the use of this branch for builds of the software <br>
itself<br>
<br>
Even<br>
<br>
Le 25/06/2026 à 20:56, Kurt Schwehr via gdal-dev a écrit :<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> I'm being asked the meaning of <br>
> <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/tree/stable" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/tree/stable</a> and realized I don't really <br>
> know what that branch is all about. I'm likely just missing some <br>
> documentation or discussion, so I apologize in advance.<br>
><br>
> I see in HOWTO-RELEASE, there is mention of `STABLE_BRANCH`. Is this <br>
> related?<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/6a231dc29bfeb734227f7e646fe7c41b59e3167d/HOWTO-RELEASE#L105-L121" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/6a231dc29bfeb734227f7e646fe7c41b59e3167d/HOWTO-RELEASE#L105-L121</a><br>
><br>
> It points to <br>
> <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/GDAL/settings/variables/actions/STABLE_BRANCH" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/GDAL/settings/variables/actions/STABLE_BRANCH</a>, <br>
> and it looks like git commits are from the current "STABLE_BRANCH" <br>
> (e.g., 3.13) are also pushed onto a "stable" branch:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/6a231dc29bfeb734227f7e646fe7c41b59e3167d/.github/workflows/auto_tag_stable.yml#L49-L50" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/6a231dc29bfeb734227f7e646fe7c41b59e3167d/.github/workflows/auto_tag_stable.yml#L49-L50</a><br>
><br>
> There is a comment about a unique SHA so that ReadTheDocs gets run. It <br>
> looks that this is so that the "stable" Read the Docs link always has <br>
> the most recent text on the most current release branch whereas the <br>
> release/X.Y will be only updated when a release happens? That doesn't <br>
> seem right as right now stable is 4 hours ago and release/3/13 is 6 <br>
> hours ago: <a href="https://app.readthedocs.org/projects/gdal/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://app.readthedocs.org/projects/gdal/</a> e.g. for these:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gdal.org/en/latest/</a><br>
> <a href="https://gdal.org/en/stable/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gdal.org/en/stable/</a><br>
> <a href="https://gdal.org/en/release-3.13/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gdal.org/en/release-3.13/</a><br>
><br>
> Do I have any of that correct and what is the semantic meaning of the <br>
> "stable" branch that users should read into it?<br>
><br>
> Thanks!<br>
> -Kurt<br>
><br>
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