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by Lukeas14 4041 days ago
I'm guessing that the master branch is first merged down to their develop branch or directly to their release branch. That way their release branch does have everything in master already.
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Indeed that is the case:

> Since master is our stable release branch, we want to ensure that any branches being deployed are caught up with the latest code in master. Before proceeding with a deployment, Hubot will detect if our branch is behind and automatically merge in master if required.