As I wrote the last time this came up: ---- Those who only know Linus from his rants might be surprised that here "his usual fashion" means: - Acknowledging

As I wrote the last time this came up: ---- Those who only know Linus from his rants might be surprised that here "his usual fashion" means: - Acknowledging that the root cause was Github's documentation being misleading. - Not blaming the contributor for being mislead by Github: "I can see why that documentation would make you think it's the right thing to do." - Admit that the ease with which the accident happened is a deficiency in Git's UI. - CC the Git maintainer to discuss improving Git to make it harder to do this by accident. (Which eventually lead to the --allow-unrelated-histories flag being needed to do this kind of merge.)