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RE: new file leaked onto release branch

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Brown, Len <len.brown@intel.com>
Date
Dec 14, 2005, 21:31 UTC
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>> I pointed out one anomaly which is the commit should never have
>> been created because it was not even a fast forward but already
>> up-to-date case, and it was followed up with exchange of a few
>> messages between Linus and you.
>> 
>
>I don't remember any of the details now, but I remember that an old
>version of git or cogito would create bogus fast-forward 
>merges, if they
>were used without GNU coreutils. The machine it happend on was running
>FreeBSD 4.10, but current versions work fine.

I'm running SuSE Linux 10.0 x86_64 on this box # rpm -q coreutils coreutils-5.3.0-20

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  1. Brown, LenDec 14, 2005

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