Branches

All branches listed below reside in Gerrit on http://codereview.qt.io and are publicly available.

• Anonymous checkout:

  $ git clone http://code.qt.io/<project>/<repo>
  

• SSH (push to Gerrit): please check Setting up Gerrit.

Qt 5

Mainline branches

dev

on-going development – new features go here.

release

preparing for release (5.8 in 2016 September).

stable

stabilised branch getting bug-fixes (5.7 in 2016 September).

LTS

Long-Term Support, 5.6 (until about 2020), only taking critical fixes.

All managed in accord with the Branch Guidelines.

Other branches

• Used for research or development of complex features.
• Feature branch names should be prefixed with wip/. Exceptions are historical.
• Feature branches often have relaxed review and integration policies and may be subject to occasional rebasing.

The following branch list applies to qt/qtbase unless otherwise noted.

wip/qstring-utf8

Dead branch, merged long ago (c. 2012/May). Was used to convert the QString functions that take const char* from Latin1 to UTF-8.

winrt

(misnomer, should be wip/winrt) Present in qtbase, qttools.

Used for development of Qt's Windows Runtime port (see http://blog.qt.io/blog/2013/02/15/port-to-windows-runtime-kick-started/ and http://blog.qt.io/blog/2013/04/19/qts-winrt-port-and-its-ccx-usage/ for some background information). Gerrit is enabled for this branch but it is not CI checked. Be aware, that this branch is rebased regularly (force pushes involved). If you want to get in contact/help out, join #qt-winrt on freenode.

wip/tizen

Present in qtbase, qtdeclarative, qtsensors and qtquickcontrols.

Branch abandoned (RIP 2015/Feb); apparently for want of enthusiastic developers.

Relates to support for Tizen, a GNU/Linux operating system for low-end devices. See: http://qtfortizen.blogspot.co.uk/

wip/network-test-server

Development of a containerised local implementation of the server used by qtbase's network tests. Uses a vagrant container. (Inactive since 2015/Oct; but network team does hope to find time to revive it.)

wip/highdpi

High-DPI research for Qt 5.6. No longer in use (last commit: 2015/Jul).

wip/lite

Qt Lite, a project to make it possible at configure-time to opt out of parts of the tool-kit that a particular delivery doesn't need (thereby saving space on bitty little devices).

wip/mir

Development history for src/plugins/platforms/mirclient/. Fully merged into Qt 5.6 by https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/122984

No longer active, but Canonical have said (2016-08-22, on developer list):

We're iterating the code in our repository (lp:qtmir) but plan to update this wip branch once we're happy with the features and apis

wip/nacl

Present in qtbase, qtdeclarative. A Qt port fort Google (portable) Native Client, and emscripten.

wip/qbs

A new Qt Build System.

Qt 4

Mainline branches

The 4.8 branch follows the Branch Guidelines.

Other branches

4.8-bb10

This branch contains a recent version of the 4.8 branch plus additional backported patches that are used for BlackBerry 10 and are not backported to the 4.8 branch. The 4.8-bb10 branch was subject to rebasing.

Qt Creator

See Submit-Policies for Qt Creator's branching policy.

wip/vcproj

Branch used to develop a plugin that enables people to work with Visual Studio projects in Qt Creator. Currently it can only open projects with a .vcproj extension.

• At the moment plugin supports:
  • editing of project's properties (this feature waits for a code review on Gerrit)
  • adding/removing files, filters and folders to/from a project (also waits for a code review on Gerrit).
  • building a Visual Studio (.vcproj) project
• How to set up