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> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 13:20:09 -0400
> 
> A more efficient way to do this would be:
> 1) emacs-27: do something
> 2) emacs-27: revert something, and mark "do not merge to master"
> 
> Then no special handling is needed. 

Thanks, will keep this in mind.