Re: Repairing the elpa branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,  
> address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:45:48 -0500
> 
> 
> I think there's no way to preserve the info that Stefan wants without
> using bzr join, and using bzr join causes precisely the problem we are
> trying to avoid, so it's insoluble. (Unless someone invents a better bzr
> join?) I had hoped that running bzr split on the current elpa branch
> would give something that could be fed back to bzr join, and maybe would
> not have the same issue, but bzr split does not DTRT.

Maybe we should ask on the Bazaar mailing list.  Perhaps someone there
will have an idea.  E.g., perhaps some Python could be written to
force "bzr fast-import" produce precisely the same rev-ids as in the
original branch.  Or something.