Commit messages and the move to git

[Joseph Myers]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> 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.

I've now provided a reduced synthetic test (7 commits) for the issue 
observed at r14877, in issue 172.  It wouldn't surprise me if a fix for 
this synthetic test fixes both issues 171 and 172 (and it wouldn't 
surprise me if it's fixed in the new SVN dump reader).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com