Re: new branch in gnulib: coreutils-8.9

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Jim,

* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 07:14:49PM CET:
> In releasing coreutils-8.9, I left its gnulib submodule pointing at a
> private commit that was going to be pushed, pending an ACK...  Since a
> slightly different commit was pushed, coreutils' submodule SHA1 was
> invalid for a short interval.  However, I have pushed my local commit
> to the new gnulib branch named "coreutils-8.9".  With that, anyone
> cloning coreutils and trying to build from the 8.9 tag *will* get a
> usable gnulib hierarchy.

FYI, this would have also been a good point at which you could have
merged the commit used for coreutils into the gnulib master branch.
Even a fake merge 'git merge -s ours coreutils-8.9' would be
appropriate, if the end result is semantically that the effects of your
patch are incorporated in the tree.

You could still do this.

That way, the next update of gnulib as coreutils submodule could still
be a fast-forward.

Cheers,
Ralf