• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    26 天前

    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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          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.

    • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Linux Torvalds / Tim Apple

      Pam from The Office: they are the same (picture)


      Sorry, couldn’t be bothered to fire up a meme generator for that joke