I propose the attached patches, described as follows, be applied to the master branch of our repository so that we have a stable starting point from which to adopt better Git practices moving forward. To assist in review, I have pushed these commits to https://github.com/timparenti/tz-experimental/commits/revert-eggert-2014-07. The first patch aims to revert, in their entirety, Paul’s three commits related to zone-linking, dated 2014-07-08, -09, and -15. Further work on this effort should be done on a new and separate branch. The second patch aims to revert, in their entirety, Paul’s two commits related to the introduction of time.tab, dated 2014-07-18 and -19. Further work on this effort should be done on a new and separate branch. The third, fourth, and fifth patches reapply changes cherry-picked from the above commits which relate to data and are less controversial. These are relative to the current state of master at 87163d184d7cc0c704d2b505adcfb23528203951 <https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/87163d184d7cc0c704d2b505adcfb23528203951>, dated Tue Jul 22 20:54:19 2014 -0700. -- Tim Parenti