On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 08:36:28AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> On my local machine, I did this successfully by first reverting a couple
> of later commits, then reverting the squashed merge, then doing a proper
> merge, and finally cherry-picking the later commits.  I verified that
> this sequence of operations made no changes to the tree.

Good news, thanks for all this work!

> Unfortunately, when I tried to push it to 'master', it was rejected
> because of 56 unsigned commits on the 'core-updates' branch.  Note that
> all of the new commits I made (the reverts, the merge, and the
> cherry-picks) were all signed by me.  The unsigned commits that are
> blocking this have been on the 'core-updates' branch for quite some
> time.
> 
> If there are unsigned commits on 'core-updates-next', I guess we'll run
> into the same problem trying to merge that branch later.

A possible solution would be to disable the commit hook that forces
signatures, make these commits, and reenable the hook; hoping that noone
adds an unsigned commit in the meantime... It would require to coordinate
with a savannah administrator.

Andreas


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