AHhh. yea.. Mug's practice of that has slowed a lot. For 1, I think Mug has gotten better about having things to the point where needing to do that is less and less, and 2.. a lot of the non-crit bugs (which most seem to be now) get pushed to the newest build hes doing that gets released on patreon first. I asked if that means at times we are waiting 2 versions for bug fixes, Mug said no.. but.. I call BS on that, cause depends on the urgency of the bug and when it actually comes out, we may technically be waiting 2 updates.. unless he does some kind of version control which pretty sure is not being done as I asked about that previously as well.
Half the reason Im keeping my own local git of the game, having watched how GL is made and how that git works (considering this has bones from GL) and I made my own edits an fixes as needed when i see them. Granted.. I can only poke at some code, I can sometimes fix line typos and what not, and what I do isnt always what Mug has changed the code to, allows me to just keep playing.
I just got done editing FA80's cheat mod into my own files. I wont release anything, but il say FA80 knows the code a smudge more than I do, but integrating it into 8.2's version was pretty straightforward.