Re: Merging emacs-23 into trunk

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:44:49 +0900
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Glenn Morris writes:
> 
>  > Can you make it just skip merging configure altogether?
> 
> Not really.  That's inherent in the philosophy of atomic commits and
> DAG-based merging.

I don't follow.  Do you have in mind a revision where configure was
committed together with other files?  If so, I understand.  But if it
was committed alone, what is the issue with atomic commits?