Merge ppc port into jdk7u-dev

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> 

It means when I'm backporting patches, I can actually tell what
the changes are and why they were made, rather than just pointing
back to one mega-patch.

And, again, can we leave this until *AFTER* the CPU?

> Andrew.
> 
> 

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Andrew :)

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