merges, commit rights and other OSes

[Christian Thalinger]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> True, but I don't see the advantage in destroying the history just to
> make the changes into a more convenient set of changesets.

Well, at least when the bsd-port is commited back to jdk7, the history
is destroyed anyway.  I never used Mercurial's rebase, but maybe we can
keep changes in separate changesets and push them (hopefully) up to
jdk7, with history?

-- Christian