Re: New trial conversion

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

sfeam <sf...@us...>:
> I don't understand the color scheme, but it cannot possibly be correct
> to show either "branch52" or "b52right"  rooted in 4.0.2
> 
> In fact 4.0.2 shouldn't be a branch at all.  It should be a tag internal
> to branch-4.0-stable.

4.0.2 is a tag (not a branch point), but it's a tag on the master branch.
I have no explanation for this yet.

> > Allowing for EDT time-zone shift it looks like the v5stable commit to
> > start the branch took place about 50 minutes before 5.1 was marked,
> > so if we transplant v5stable to be a child of /Empirical adjustments
> > to dashlength/ and then nuke the older commits on the branch, that should
> > restore the original topology.
> > 
> > Ethan, can you confirm that this fork point is correct?
> 
> The timing is correct.
> The "empirical adjustments" thingy is the last common ancestral node
> to branch-5.0-stable and the current main branch
> 
> But I definitely do not understand what operation you are proposing to
> perform :-)

I'm going to move the v5stable branch to be based on /empirical adjustments/,
restoring correct topology.
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