That's crazy. Not so much that I have to do it once, but that I apparently
will have to do this going forward forever. I can vaguely understand that
this is caused by the incompatibility between a linear only history and a
branching history.
It also doesn't seem to work; when I try to cherry
My understanding is that this happens if you ever had non-linear commit history
in your github repository (i.e. more than one branch changed and then were
merged together), or if you used the old git/svn bridge. As far as I understand
it, the only solution (in the near term) is to cherry pick
