linux-kernel - Re: suspicious ALSA empty commit

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Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:26:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, krzysztof.h1@...pl, perex@...ex.cz
Subject: Re: suspicious ALSA empty commit



On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, David Miller wrote:
> 
> While scanning over today's updates in Linus's tree, I noticed
> the following commit has no changes, and this does not appear
> to be intentional.

Interesting. You're right, I didn't notice.

Git shouldn't even allow such commits to be generated, although you can 
force it by using the low-level functionality (eg using "git commit-tree" 
directly for doing things like importing)

			Linus
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