Merge ppc port into jdk7u-dev

[Andrew Haley]

On 11/07/16 16:33, Andrew Hughes wrote:

>>> On 11/07/16 15:28, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>>> I don't really want to lose all the history with just one huge
>>> patch either.
>>
>> In practice, from merging in ports, that is by far the best thing
>> to do.  The history can be found in the development tree.
> 
> That's certainly not my experience. Having the history available
> on the working tree has proved invaluable on several occasions.

I'm sure, but it makes an awful mess of the history of the tree
being merged into.  No.

Andrew.