Re: Missing changes in merges from emacs-25 to master

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Engster <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 18:52:06 +0100
> 
> > So I guess the fact that a commit was skipped during a merge is
> > something that is so hard to see that perhaps the entire issue of
> > skipping is moot with Git, and we shouldn't be bothered by it.
> 
> Well, it's not *that* hard to see, but it usually requires to look at a
> span of commits. In this case,
> 
>   git diff cb4e054e41c..300560577
> 
> will correctly produce nothing. But I agree it's unfortunate that you
> cannot see this from the merge commit alone. But I'm not sure what you
> mean with the entire issue being moot. How do you suggest we deal with
> commits that shouldn't land in master?

Sorry, I should have made it clear I was talking only about the
backported commits.