From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:58:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Questions about git-fast-import for cvs2svn
Message-ID: <877A33E8-7C61-4E36-BF07-5819914FCE21@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <F06A5876-BA2A-4172-B2D1-BBCFF92C83EF@zib.de>


On Jul 15, 2007, at 8:51 PM, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> I'm not sure if merges help to solve the situation described by  
> Michael.
> From my understanding the situation is more like starting a branch and
> later 'cherry-picking' commits from various other branches at  
> different
> times. Michael describes a situation where a branch would need to  
> start
> from multiple commits. I think this is different from merging.

[ Hmm.. should have checked my email another time
to avoid the race condition with Linus ...]

	Steffen