The latest version of RSQLite (on CRAN) broke my package, DECIPHER, in both the devel and release branches.  I have patched the devel branch so that it should work in the next build, but I do not understand the instructions on how to merge the changes into the release branch.  Does anyone have the minimal set of git commands to sync the release branch with devel, while updating the version number in release?  Any assistance would be much appreciated.  Apologies in advance that I am not a git wizard.

Please ask questions about package development on the bioc-devel mailing list. What I would do is check-out and pull any upstream changes, where the git merge is on all remotes in your repository, git remote -v, which I've summarized as '<remote>'

git checkout RELEASE_3_7
git fetch --all
git merge <remote>/RELEASE_3_7

I'd then figure out the hash codes of the commits I want to port, excluding the version bump if I'd structured it that way

git log master   # find the commit hash(es), <commit>
git cherry-pick <commit>    # or maybe <commit>..<commit>, or <commit> <commit> ...

Then create a version bump commit

vi DESCRIPTION  # correct version bump for RELEASE_3_7
git commit -a

and finally push to all remotes

git push <remote>/RELEASE_3_7