Commit messages and the move to git

[Eric S. Raymond]

Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
> I just tried a leading-segment load up to r14877, but it didn't reproduce 
> the problems I see with r14877 in a full repository conversion - it seems 
> the combination with something later in the history may be necessary to 
> reproduce the issue.

Great :-(

Well, there's a bisection-like strategy for finding the minimum
leading segment that produces misbehavior.  My conversion crew will
apply it as hard as we need to to get the job done.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>