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 by adding sudo in front of the commands above.
 
 
+Branching and release policy
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+- Feature development happens on the `main` branch
+- Branch-off points for releases are tagged with tags that start with `p`, such as `p1.0`
+- Release branches have a `.x` suffix, for example `1.0.x`
+- Release tags start with `v`, for example `v1.0` or `v1.0.1`
+- Release candidate tags additionally end with `-rcN`, for example `v1.0-rc1`
+
+
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