# 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/2839

## Brown, Len, 2005-12-14 21:31

Subject: RE: new file leaked onto release branch
Message-ID: <F7DC2337C7631D4386A2DF6E8FB22B30056B8652@hdsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/F7DC2337C7631D4386A2DF6E8FB22B30056B8652%40hdsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com

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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.
>> 
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>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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