Re: The git mirror is *very* badly screwed up

[Eric S. Raymond]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Those aren't bzr revisions, they're marks from a git stream dump.
> 
> That's why they are useless.  Tell me the git revisions so I can tell
> you what went wrong.

The parent commit is bcf9acba5a440b6e6d0b9877b23365d3e47765d7

I have visualized the neighborhood of this commit in bubble.png,
which is attached along with an event listing.  These make clear
enough what is going on.

Four commits following :862 - :864, :867, :869, :871 - form a merge
bubble which is closed at :873.  The problem is that something in the 
chain of transmission gave both sides of the bubble the same branch ID,
which should not ever happen.

I think there are several dozen anomalies like this.

> > which I was going to delete anyway.  They seem to consist entirely of dummy
> > test commits by Glen Morris.
> 
> They also contains rewritten history.

History of what?  Can you be clearer about what, if anything, you
think needs to be salvaged from these?
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