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At any given time Node.js needs to be maintaining a few different V8 branches
for the various Current, LTS, and nightly releases. At present this list
includes the following branches<sup>1</sup>:
includes the following branches:[^1]

<table>
<tr>
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* Run the Node.js [V8 CI][] in addition to the [Node.js CI][].
The CI uses the `test-v8` target in the `Makefile`, which uses
`tools/make-v8.sh` to reconstruct a git tree in the `deps/v8` directory to
run V8 tests<sup>2</sup>.
run V8 tests.[^2]

The [`git-node`][] tool can be used to simplify this task. Run
`git node v8 backport <sha>` to cherry-pick a commit.
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promoted from `nodejs/v8` to `nodejs/node`.
* Enabled the V8-CI build in Jenkins to build from the `nodejs/v8` fork.

<!-- Footnotes themselves at the bottom. -->
[^1]: Node.js 0.12 and older are intentionally omitted from this document
as their support has ended.

### Notes

<sup>1</sup>Node.js 0.12 and older are intentionally omitted from this document
as their support has ended.

<sup>2</sup>The V8 tests still require Python 2. To run these tests locally,
you can run `PYTHON2 ./configure.py` before running `make test-v8`, in the root
of this repository. On macOS, this also requires a full Xcode install,
not just the "command line tools" for Xcode.
[^2]: The V8 tests still require Python 2. To run these tests locally, you can
run `PYTHON2 ./configure.py` before running `make test-v8`, in the root
of this repository. On macOS, this also requires a full Xcode install,
not just the "command line tools" for Xcode.

[ChromiumReleaseCalendar]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar
[Node.js CI]: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/
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