Re: Repairing the elpa branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Cc: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:10:27 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > The downside of this is, of course, that all the revision-ids will
> > change (the hash part of the revid's displayed by bzr will be
> > different), so users will have to abandon their current elpa checkouts
> > and clone a new branch, then copy their local commits to the new
> > branch.
> 
> This will be an inevitable side-effect of whatever we do (well, all the
> revids after r170's anyway), if we do anything.

Then I suggest that you use the fast-import method, as it will take
much less time and effort (20 sec overall, on my machine).  I also
think it's much less error-prone, and it retains the merges that
Stefan wanted to preserve.