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• A release branch should be made well in advance of the release to allow for stabilzation of the release and the preparation of RCs. A release branch is a long-lived branch from which all the releases for a non-API breaking versions are made. So you would release 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2 of a project from a 2.0.x branch and likewise you would release 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2 from a 2.1.x branch.
• Make sure that all developers checked in their local modifications before the branch is created.
• Copy using URLs as everything will occur on the server and be faster.

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