Re: linux-next: unneeded merge in the security tree

[James Morris]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> [James, I am not picking on you, just using your tree to illustrate a
> point.]
> 
> The top commit in the security tree today is a merge of v3.9-rc2.  This
> is a completely unnecessary merge as the tree before the merge was a
> subset of v3.9-rc1 and so if the merge had been done using anything but
> the tag, it would have just been a fast forward.  I know that this is now
> deliberate behaviour on git's behalf, but isn't there some way we can
> make this easier on maintainers who are just really just trying to pick a
> new starting point for their trees after a release?  (at least I assume
> that is what James was trying to do)

Yes, and I was merging to a tag as required by Linus.


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