From: Brown, Len <len.brown@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:31:58 GMT
Subject: RE: new file leaked onto release branch
Message-ID: <F7DC2337C7631D4386A2DF6E8FB22B30056B8652@hdsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>

>> 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