linux-kernel - Re: suspicious ALSA empty commit

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Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:55:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	krzysztof.h1@...pl
Subject: Re: suspicious ALSA empty commit

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> I didn't notice, too. I've fixed this commit in my git tree.

More importantly, how did it get there in the first place?

As mentioned, normal git tools will not even *allow* you to create an 
empty commit by default! So you must be using some really strange workflow 
to get an empty commit, or be triggering a git bug, both of which should 
be resolved first.

		Linus
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