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Subject: Today I learned… Path: you​!your-host​!wintermute​!hardees​!m5​!plovergw​!shitpost​!mjd Date: 2018-02-28T15:02:11 Newsgroup: rec.pets.git.weird-hacks Message-ID: <8228323335c66700@shitpost.plover.com> Content-Type: text/shitpost git-commit-tree won't create a merge commit where two of the parents are identical. % echo Planarian power | git commit-tree HEAD^{tree} -p HEAD -p HEAD error: duplicate parent 3627118bf5d5e1af75a10f640c1aee9c397d257e ignored 9f41d9f782ff9800558f8317840d0dab3ee961cc % git log -1 --pretty=%p 9f41d9f782ff9800558f8317840d0dab3ee961cc 3627118 Darn it, Git, I wanted to shoot my foot off!