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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Odd decision of git-pasky-0.7 to do a merge
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:52:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050429215250.E30010@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504291043060.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>; from torvalds@osdl.org on Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:44:29AM -0700

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:44:29AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote:
> > Why it decided that a merge was necessary is beyond me.  Any ideas?
> > Did Linus forget to merge his tree properly?
> 
> It looks like it was unable to find the right common ancestor.
> 
> If you only had my stuff in it, the common ancestor _should_ have been the 
> parent (c60c390620e0abb60d4ae8c43583714bda27763f), which _should_ have 
> been your old top.
> 
> But maybe merge-base didn't work right?

Yup - pasky-0.7 came out with some weird commit-id, but cogito-0.8
got it right.  Now using cogito-0.8 here, so I'm no longer concerned
about this particular problem.

-- 
Russell King


      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-29 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-29  7:36 Odd decision of git-pasky-0.7 to do a merge Russell King
2005-04-29  9:07 ` Russell King
2005-04-29  9:31   ` Russell King
2005-04-29 18:21     ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-29 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-29 20:52   ` Russell King [this message]

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