Re: Release branch plans

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:50:47 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > Would the "copy everything over" step munge the history on
> > the emacs-24 branch?
> 
> If the trunk has merged everything from the emacs-24 branch (which will
> be the case), then the "copy over" can be done with a plain normal
> "push", i.e. without losing any history.

The history will be insanely messy after that anyway, so I wouldn't
bother.  Just "bzr pull --overwrite" and commit.  If the trunk will be
copied into emacs-24, then the history of trunk at that point really
_becomes_ the history of emacs-24.