Re: Suggestion for cherry-picking to stable branches

[Bruno Haible]

> > easy to compare with the original commit and distinguish
> > branch-only commits from backports.

You can get limited insights by comparing the ChangeLogs of the
master branch with a stable branch.

But if what you want is a mechanically verifiable assertion of
any kind, I can tell you that none exists. Backporting patches
is, ultimately, manual developer work. (This is obvious by the
fact that developers who have to maintain 6 or 7 backport branches
spend a *lot* of time on that.) You may trust or may not trust
this developer work, but there is no mechanical way to prove
that you can trust it.

Bruno