Re: State of the repository conversion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan <address@hidden>
> Cc: Steinar Bang <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:40:45 -0400
> 
> > What bzrmerge.el does, when we merge a fix from the branch, is
> > effectively a cherry-pick,
> 
> No, bzrmerge does not cherry pick in any sense of the word.  It does
> a merge.

For crying out loud, Stefan, give me the benefit of the doubt that I
just _might_ know this!

I said "_effectively_ a cherry-pick".

> > I'm not sure this will work with git, btw.
> 
> There's nothing special in bzrmerge that should prevent it from working
> in another VCS, so long as that VCS has a notion of "branch merge", basically.

In some ancient discussion Linus said that a commit that doesn't bring
in any diffs is "madness" and shouldn't exist.  Or maybe I
misunderstood.