RE: new file leaked onto release branch

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