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

[Andrew Parsloe]

On 25/03/2025 10:49 pm, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 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.

This is the first time anyone has attributed super-powers to me. And, 
yes, I would be happy to test such binaries.

Andrew

> 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
>