Hi James,

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:16:35 +1100 Stephen Rothwell [off-list ref] wrote:

The security tree
(git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git#next)
looks a bit strange today ... It appears to have been created by Casey
Schaufler (cc'd) and contains some quite old commits and back merges of
your tree.  I *guess* you have merged in Casey's tree after he merged in
your tree from yesterday.

If that is what happened, it may be worth always using the --no-ff flag
to git merge/pull to make sure that the top commit on your tree always
has you as the committer (and maybe SOB).

Linus, does that make sense in general for maintainers?

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au