Re: [PATCH 000/141] V4L/DVB updates part 1

[Daniel Barkalow]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > 
> > Weird, I can't see all those stuff here. It shows something like
> > (running from master copy at kernel.org):
> 
> I just did the raw output, so my output was from
> 
> 	git show --pretty=fuller -r e338b7
> 
> which isn't the default, but it's useful if you want to see both committer 
> and author information (and the raw format is just because I wasn't 
> interested in the diff itself, just looking at how many files where 
> changed).
> 
> > So, after the merging message, I have a normal diff with:
> > 
> >  179 files changed, 1274 insertions(+), 785 deletions(-)
> 
> Yeah, we're talking about the same commit.
> 
> > Seeming all perfect from my knowledge about git.
> 
> It's a perfectly good commit. BUT IT IS NOT A MERGE, AND IT IS NOT A DIFF 
> THAT I WANT TO SEE COMING IN FROM AN OUTSIDE TREE!

Isn't this what you'd get if you accidentally removed .git/MERGE_HEAD 
while trying to resolve a merge, and then absent-mindedly described what 
you'd done in the commit message (forgetting that it ought to have 
generated the commit message for you in this situation)?

I expect the source of the bad commit is losing that, although I don't 
know any obvious way to lose it (and still have the index contents which 
you're merging).

	-Daniel
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