Re: The git mirror is *very* badly screwed up

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:54:30 -0500
> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>:
> > "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Those aren't bzr revisions, they're marks from a git stream dump.
> > 
> > That's why they are useless.  Tell me the git revisions so I can tell
> > you what went wrong.
> 
> The parent commit is bcf9acba5a440b6e6d0b9877b23365d3e47765d7
> 
> I have visualized the neighborhood of this commit in bubble.png,
> which is attached along with an event listing.  These make clear
> enough what is going on.
> 
> Four commits following :862 - :864, :867, :869, :871 - form a merge
> bubble which is closed at :873.  The problem is that something in the 
> chain of transmission gave both sides of the bubble the same branch ID,
> which should not ever happen.

The commits you cited are from the elpa branch.  I don't see why you
should worry about that, since elpa already switched to git anyway.
Its bzr branch is of no use anymore.