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From: Stephen Smith <ishchis2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] How to keep a project's canonical history correct.
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 06:41:57 -0700
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> On May 8, 2014, at 11:08 PM, "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> During the mail thread about "Pull is mostly evil" a user asked how
> the first parent could become reversed.
> 
> This howto explains how the first parent can get reversed when viewed
> by the project and then explains a method to keep the history correct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
> ---

The reason I resubmitted as a brand new patch was because I was using the message ID from the original topic as requested. 

In my repository I did a "git merge --squash" then the format patch.