Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 06:42:34PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I think you should start from the pre-merge ‘core-updates-next’, sign
>> commits that are unsigned (I thought Manolis signed them all on the last
>> rebase?), then merge, and finally push.
>
> Unfortunately, signing old commits causes subsequent history to be
> rewritten, and the subsequent signatures are lost. I would have to
> re-sign commits all the way back to June (for aebd383). And Git users'
> local history would become invalid.

Yeah, but despite lacking the ‘wip-’ prefix as we usually do, this
branch was “rebaseable”, so I think it’s OK.

Hopefully that will no longer happen in the future.

> I think we are hitting something like the problem I warned about here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg01220.html

Yes, that’s annoying, but it’s a one-time transitional cost.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

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