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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.
It was in fact a microscopic deal. Linus overreacted. Lemmy and Reddit milked the drama.
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.
Yes. Linus is known to overreact and use colourful language.