Linus Torvalds - that commit is not mine
Linus Torvalds - that commit is not mine
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WHOOOOOA. If Linus is not mistaken (doubtful), there wasn't an intrusion in the repo, or there wasn't some fucked up merge somewhere, this is crazy as hell. This is a huge deal. Good on Linus for catching it.
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If you read the whole thread, it turns out to be an undesirable behaviour of a tool called b4, which was rewriting not just author information but committer information. The consensus seems to be that this tool needs to be updated not to do that.
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It was in fact a microscopic deal. Linus overreacted. Lemmy and Reddit milked the drama.
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Linus' tone was disproportionate, but he wasn't wrong. This could easily have been a compromised account trying to sneak code into the kernel.
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His tone is almost always disproportionate. It’s just who he is.
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If it was compromised account trying to sneak code into the kernel, the attacker wouldn’t rewrite history since that would be obviously flagged when Linus tries to merge the pull request; as demonstrated by Linus in fact noticing the rewritten history. There was virtually no chance that this was an attack.
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Well, that's kind of his personality though. Just reading the message it seemed like quite an event though. The mailing list is generally very transactional and uneventful.
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Well, that’s kind of his personality though.
Yes. Linus is known to overreact and use colourful language.
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