Re: State of the repository conversion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:02:53 +0100
> 
> > In some ancient discussion Linus said that a commit that doesn't bring
> > in any diffs is "madness" and shouldn't exist.  Or maybe I
> > misunderstood.
> 
> You probably misunderstood.

Quite likely.  But maybe you will be kind enough to explain what Linus
meant in these two messages, when he said that an extra merge-commit
is wrong and has "zero semantic information in it"?

  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2006q4/018265.html
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2006q4/018273.html

There's a definite difference between bzr and git that is alluded to
here, but what is it?  (You may wish reading the surrounding messages
for context.)

Thanks.