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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Linus Torvalds - that commit is not mine (lore.kernel.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

> Welp, that precisely recreated it -- even identical shas! Looking at
> the b4 output, I do see a suspicious "39 commits" listed for some reason.

Well, that's the point where the user, in theory, goes "this is weird, why is
it 39 commits," and does Ctrl-C, but I'm happy to accept blame here -- we
should be more careful with this operation and bail out whenever we recognize
that something has gone wrong. To begin with, we'll output a listing of all
the commits that will be rewritten, just to make it more obvious when things
are about to go wrong.

> So, I assume the "git-filter-repo" invocation is what mangled it. I will
> try to dig into what b4 actually asked it to do in the morning...

Thanks for looking into this. Linus, this is accurate and I am 100% convinced
that there was no malicious intent. My apologies for being part of the mess
through the tooling.

I will reinstate Kees's account so he can resume his work.

-K

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I have also been done in many times by git-filter-repo. My condolences to the chef.