Next steps: Create a script to automate git updates
Before starting, log into the admin area of the site and check the released version. Also check to be sure there are no database upgrades to do between this release and the current release, and back up all the files.
We add the JCE editor to all of our installations. (Not yet done in git).
All maintenance is done on a local working copy of Joomla, and pushed to our central repo.
Here's how I'm addressing it:
Now we should have a much cleaner delta to pull over to other branches: