Re: Update on the branch surgery

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

Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...>:
> The logical branch point for branch-4-2-stable would have been immediately 
> before the 2006-10-01 "jump to version 4.2" commit.
> e18d4e5da418c2ad5a98a2aff3237088aeee01c8
> 
> I don't know whether the "branch point" terminology used by git
> refers to the last common ancester or the first commit after divergence.
> Looks like "jump to version 4.2" is the latter (first commit after split), 
> while "re-organize top level configuration" is the former (last common 
> ancestor).

Yes, that is how I have rearranged the tree.

Usually, "branch point" refers to the common ancestor.  But it is wise to be
careful about this, as noyt all usage is consistent.

I'm working on 4.0 now.
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