Strange commit

[Ed Maste]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 19:37, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> I will, but I'll have to run the conversion again saving the output so
> that I can figure out what branch name(s) are involved.

Ok, it's not clear to me what is responsible for avoiding merge
metadata for these commits.

In the hack you referenced:
> if (path_from != NULL && prevrepository == repository && prevbranch != branch
> && (branch.startsWith("master") || branch.startsWith("head") ||
> branch.startsWith("projects") || branch.startsWith("user"))
> && !prevbranch.startsWith("stable")) {

AFAICT the only condition on the "from" branch is that it's not a
merge from stable.