Re: new branch in gnulib: coreutils-8.9

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/04/2011 01:05 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> That way, the next update of gnulib as coreutils submodule could still
>>> be a fast-forward.
>>
>> Hi Ralf,
>>
>> I've done as you suggest (note that it required temporarily
>> disabling the hook that prohibits pushing merge commits to master).
>> That has the added benefit that the branch is no longer needed.
>
> Except that you --amend'ed the commit before merging, so that the
> gnulib.git master branch refers to commit a77937c rather than the
> intended fa6be5b that is current on the gnulib.git coreutils-8.9 branch,
> so right now, one _still_ needs the coreutils-8.9 branch to exist.

sigh.  Thanks, Eric.
My first merge used an old, invalid branch.
This one does the right thing:

  git merge -s ours origin/coreutils-8.9

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