Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:56:34 +0200

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 01:46:11PM +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Greg - please fix your crazy tools. Look at this:
> 
>    git log fs/sysfs/dir.c
> 
> and tell me why the f*&% you have commit messages like this:
> 
>   commit 4f72c0cab40536a0be501d85ea4918467ab82ad5
>   Author: Mikulas Patocka <[email-masked]>
>   Date:   Mon Jul 25 17:55:57 2011 -0400
> 
>       sysfs: use rb-tree for name lookups
> 
>       sysfs: use rb-tree for name lookups

The "crazy" tool was using 'git am'.  The problem was that I missed the
fact that the first line of the patch sent to me duplicated the subject
line.  It's a really common problem when people generate patches and
send them off by email, I just forgot to edit the patches from Mikulas
to remove them, my fault, sorry.

greg k-h