Re: merge gc something

[Han-Wen Nienhuys, LilyPond development]

> I did a branch merge for my recent bits.  There's enough pointless
> changes in the head I'll probably give up on that soon.
>
> At any rate the bit below has conflicts.  Perhaps it's already in the
> head, or perhaps it's not wanted.  But I don't understand either it or
> the changes it conflicts with, so I left it out.
>

I already backported these changes to 1.8 myself.