Herman van Rink [off-list ref] writes:
As an alternative I've now applied a patch with all changes on a clean
master branch.
In the commit message I've named all committers from the original history.
Would that be acceptable?
Seems ok to me but Junio has the final say.
Its now available as https://github.com/helmo/git/tree/subtree-updates
The subtree merge version is still available as
https://github.com/helmo/git/tree/subtree-updates-merged
Cool. I'll take a look, probably Wednesday at the earliest.
-Dave