RE: new file leaked onto release branch

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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.

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