Re: [GIT PULL] GPIO bulk changes for kernel v4.6

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

The code in the recursive merge that allows this to happen is this:
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And I do think that's right, and I think it's clever, and it goes back to 2006:

  934d9a24078e merge-recur: if there is no common ancestor, fake empty one

but I think there should be an option there.

Oh, I think everybody understands that and agrees by now.