On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:36:14AM +0600, Ildar Mulyukov wrote:
> > but what's the purpose of having another dead branch in repo?
> В этом нет ничего страшного.
It's just a question of general repository beauty.

> Если вспомнить, одной из целей введения git.alt было воспроизвести  
> любую (историческую) сборку.
_This_ history don't worth to be reproduced.  Two meaningful
commits were cherry-picked, last two builds still have it's own
problems.

Another example - upstream switched to git from another SCM.
Depending on tools that were used by me and upstream we may end
up with two trees that differs only in object ids.  In this case
(if I want to keep package history) I prefer to cherry-pick old
commits into new tree, merging and tagging when necessary (this
is going to happen with gnokii repository soon).

-- 
Regards,
Sir Raorn.