'git commit' duplicates parents?

I just checked in a change with 'git commit' (no arguments). Two strange things occurred:

1) git-whatchanged does not list the change at all.  However,
	a) I verified that my change is indeed top-of-tree
	b) git-changes-script (attached) does show the change

2) git-changes-script shows the parents in a readable fashion, and it 
shows two duplicate parent entries.  In contrast, other changes do not 
have two parents:

my change:

		^^^ top of tree aka .git/HEAD

a random change not committed by 'git commit':

#!/bin/bash # # Make a log of changes in a GIT branch. # # This script was originally written by (c) Ross Vandegrift. # Adapted to his scripts set by (c) Petr Baudis, 2005. # Major optimizations by (c) Phillip Lougher. # Rendered trivial by Linus Torvalds. # Added -L|-R option by James Bottomley # # options: # script [-L <dir> | -R <dir> |-r <from_sha1> [ -r <to_sha1] ] [<sha1>] # # With no options shows all the revisions from HEAD to the root # -L shows all the changes in the local tree compared to the tree at <dir> # -R shows all the changes in the remote tree at <dir> compared to the local # -r shows all the changes in one commit or between two

tmpfile=/tmp/git_changes.$$ r1= r2=

showcommit() {
	commit="$1"
	echo commit ${commit%:*};
	git-cat-file commit $commit | \
		while read key rest; do
			case "$key" in
			"author"|"committer")
				date=(${rest#*> })
				sec=${date[0]}; tz=${date[1]}
				dtz=${tz/+/+ }; dtz=${dtz/-/- }
				pdate="$(date -Rud "1970-01-01 UTC + $sec sec $dtz" 2>/dev/null)"
				if [ "$pdate" ]; then
					echo $key $rest | sed "s/>.*/> ${pdate/+0000/$tz}/"
				else
					echo $key $rest
				fi
				;;
			"")
				echo; cat
				;;
			*)
				echo $key $rest
				;;
			esac

		done
}

while true; do
	case "$1" in
		-R)	shift;
			diffsearch=+
			remote="$1"
			shift;;
		-L)	shift;
			diffsearch=-
			remote="$1"
			shift;;
		-r)	shift;
			if [ -z "$r1" ]; then
				r1="$1"
			else
				r2="$1"
			fi
			shift;;
		*)	base="$1"
			break;;
	esac
done

if [ -n "$r1" ]; then
	if [ -z "$r2" ]; then
		showcommit $r1
		exit 0
	fi
	diffsearch=+
	remote=`pwd`;
	tobase="$r2";
	base="$r1"
fi
	
if [ -z "$base" ]; then
	base=$(cat .git/HEAD) || exit 1
fi

git-rev-tree $base | sort -rn  > ${tmpfile}.base
if [ -n "$remote" ]; then
	[ -d $remote/.git ] || exit 1
	if [ -z "$tobase" ]; then
		tobase=$(cat $remote/.git/HEAD) || exit 1
	fi
	pushd $remote > /dev/null
	git-rev-tree $tobase | sort -rn > ${tmpfile}.remote
	diff -u ${tmpfile}.base ${tmpfile}.remote | grep "^${diffsearch}[^${diffsearch}]" | cut -c 1- > ${tmpfile}.diff
	rm -f ${tmpfile}.base ${tmpfile}.remote
	mv ${tmpfile}.diff ${tmpfile}.base
	if [ $diffsearch = "-" ]; then
		popd > /dev/null
	fi
fi

[ -s "${tmpfile}.base" ] || exit 0

cat ${tmpfile}.base | while read time commit parents; do
	showcommit $commit
	echo -e "\n--------------------------"

done rm -f ${tmpfile}.base