[LyX/master] Give error if adding a branch that already exists

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:16:08AM +0000, José Matos wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-03-24 at 13:16 -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> > Given that some people do use master for actual work, that seems a bit 
> > harsh (since it will effectively crash the program). How about just 
> > adding an alert here or something?
> > 
> > Riki
> 
> The issue comes then to what is needed to make a stable release?
> 
> Some question to developers:
> 1. Or asking in another way what is the current state of 2.5?
> 2. What do we need to do to enter the freeze stage?
> 3. What are your plans for features that you
> 
> The purpose of the above question is have an idea about the current state of the
> development.
> 
> 2.4.0 was released in May of 2024, the first release candidate was released in
> January. In terms of testing it is easier if the releases are smaller than
> larger.
> 
> I am in no hurry to have 2.5 released but on the other hand I would like to
> avoid having it slip for several years.

Do I understand the above as a volunteer for release manager? ;)

More seriously, I agree quicker releases would be nice.

I would like to see intermediate testing on Windows and MacOS. I think
there are some super-users, like Andrew, who would be willing to take
the risk to test, say monthly, binaries from master if they were
available. And this feedback is extremely valuable, and shortens the
release process by finding bugs specific to platform/Qt-release/specific
worfklows.

It would also help bring out issues from making the binaries, which
there always seem to be a couple.

Scott
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