But according to the article, both of the parents contained the same old code. Could be that it was just collateral damage in a larger conflict, but still it se

But according to the article, both of the parents contained the same old code. Could be that it was just collateral damage in a larger conflict, but still it seems that someone used the merge commit to make an off-topic, ad-hoc change that was not only superfluous but code-breaking.