"private-kvp" merge reverted other changes since November.

[Mike Alexander]

--On May 13, 2014 9:35:58 PM -0700 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
wrote:

> That's the SVN way. We discussed this back in March [1] and decided
> that we're not going to do that anymore. If you want to revisit that
> you need a better argument than "that's the way I've always done it",
> considering that the Git community at large doesn't seem to consider
> it a "best practice".

So what has been wrong with my commits that you would like me to fix? 
Do you think absolutely everything should go on a branch and get merged 
into master or maint?  Or is it ok to put small changes directly on 
master or maint?

          Mike