# RE: new file leaked onto release branch

1 messages from 2005-12-14 to 2005-12-14. Participants: Brown, Len.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2835

## Brown, Len, 2005-12-14 18:27

Subject: RE: new file leaked onto release branch
Message-ID: <F7DC2337C7631D4386A2DF6E8FB22B300567F3B8@hdsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/F7DC2337C7631D4386A2DF6E8FB22B300567F3B8%40hdsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com

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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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