I see, I forgot to pull. 

These were trivial changes:  changed a variable name (that is a key word) and fixed a test that did not compile anymore so I did it directly on master.

Mark

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Jed Brown <jed@jedbrown.org> wrote:
Satish Balay <balay@mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> I interpreted this merge as 'commits were made directly to master' -
> not a separate feature branch.

It either means developing on 'master' (which has always been
discouraged) or doing a fast-forward merge of a topic branch (also
discouraged, but easier to do accidentally).