I'm fine with branching master, (hard) resetting back to a previous point, merging/cherry-picking portaudio fixes, tagging 0.53-2, then doing a force push. As long as everyone knows ahead of time, we can do a force pull afterwards. Yes, it's best avoided, but is sometimes be needed.

Afterwards, maybe current development can be in the branch until ready, ie. feature/multi-channel or develop/0.54, etc? 

On Feb 6, 2023, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

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Subject: [PD-dev] branch names (was Re: figuring out how to get
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On 2/5/23 22:37, Miller Puckette via Pd-dev wrote:
Yep, I originally made a "0.53" branch but then messed it up so badly
I had to start over - and thought it better to change the name to
avoid confusion.

i see.
it seems like the "avoid confusion" did not utterly succeed though ;-)

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