bug#19049: 25.0.50; emacs-repository-get-version doesn't work with git

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  19049@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:17:01 +0200
> 
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > neither of which helps, and the Emacs for Git Devs wiki doesn't say how
> > to cherry-pick stuff, either.
> 
> Have you tried 'git cherry-pick <hash>'? Seems rather obvious, doesn't it?

No, it isn't obvious if you never did that before.  More importantly,
it's not the way changes should be backported, because cherry-pick
also commits reusing the same commit message, as Lars has just
discovered, which is bad.