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Re: git-fmt-merge-message problem..

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jul 13, 2006, 05:09 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> which makes no sense AT ALL. It's doesn't even parse. "Merge commit <repo> 
> of <branch>"? Whaa? That's just insane.
>
> Also, the " * HEAD" is just ugly. It was better before.

Yes, this is a simple mistranslation from Perl to C. A patch will follow shortly.

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