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RE: new file leaked onto release branch

From
Brown, Len <len.brown@intel.com>
Date
Dec 14, 2005, 18:27 UTC
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>Len, how old a git are you using? "git-merge" really should 
>_never_ have done this, but old (and I mean really old)
>git merges sometimes got confused with the base parent
>and would create a merge even when it was unnecessary.
should be the top of tree on the day the merge was made.

I generally pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git at the beginning of the day, build it and install it.

Right now git --version answers 0.99.9.GIT
-Len
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  1. Brown, LenDec 14, 2005

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