Scheduling a repository outage

[Fred Wright]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2017, Hal Murray wrote:
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > 3. Reply to this message telling me you're ready - especially if you
> >    are Gary, Matt, or Hal.
>
> Go for it.

BTW, I see no need to convert local branches to patchfiles.  If rebase
doesn't work in this context (which I suspect is the case), one can still
use cherry-pick.

Suppose one has a branch called my_old_branch, referenced to old_master,
and wants to convert it to my_new_branch, referenced to new_master.  Then
one does:

$ git checkout -b my_new_branch new_master
$ git cherry-pick old_master...my_old_branch

Fred Wright