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by andix 877 days ago
I'm not sure if any branching strategy helps supporting multiple software versions simultaneously. There is a reason why "rolling releases" are the default now.

For a short while it may work to just merge bugfixes to older versions. But after a while the changes to older versions need to be done independently. Implementing a fix for three versions will just take three times longer than for one version very soon.