Jacob Ritorto writes:
My $0.02: Stop at exactly where you know it's
still completely clean
and document well (i.e. this email copied into a README somewhere with
the distro) what's blocking you. If you proceed with force, it maligns
the goal, here, which was stated as "pristine." Many, many thanks for
the push this far, however!
Maybe that's one goal, but a pristine copy could just as well be a means
to a different end - e.g. being able to do a "git annotate" on any file
to see what changes were made when.